Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence

by Jill Burke

To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's Changing Patrons, a book that draws heavily upon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271023627
• ISBN13: 9780271023625
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 10.2"