The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara

By Charles M. Rosenberg

The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara examines the transformation of one of Italy's most important city states as engineered by a succession of Este rulers. During the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, individual Este princes constructed and embellished palaces and citadels, founded and supported churches and monastic complexes, and encouraged or sponsored major urban projects, including the famous Ercolean Addition, as a means of glorifying their city and defining their own position within it. In tandem with these projects, four public sculptural monuments dedicated to Este princes were also erected or planned for the city. Set into the context of the urban development of Ferrara, the four projects reveal the role that princely and public patronage played in the process of political self-fashioning and promotion in early Renaissance Italy.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521561396
• ISBN13: 9780521561396
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 1.0" x 7.5"