Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600

by Loren Partridge and Randolph Starn

Jacob Burckhardt claimed that the state in Renaissance Italy became a work of art. In this book, the authors illiminate the corollary: that art in Italy became a work of state. They study centres of power under three distinctive governments - a civic republic of the 14th century, a princely court of the 15th, and an absolutist state of the 16th. The authors argue that, no less than armies, laws and taxes, painted halls of state were strategic instruments,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520073835
• ISBN13: 9780520073838
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 374 Pages