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Contents More Information Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85162-6 - Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Florence Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Table of Contents More information CONTENTS S List of Illustrations page xi List of Contributors xxi Acknowledgments xxiii introduction 1 Francis Ames-Lewis 1 florence, 1300–1600 7 Francis W. Kent 2 florence before the black death 35 Janet Robson 3 the arts in florence after the black death 79 Louise Bourdua 4 republican florence, 1400–1434 119 Adrian W. B. Randolph 5 the florence of cosimo “il vecchio” de’ medici: within and beyond the walls 167 Roger J. Crum 6 art and cultural identity in lorenzo de’ medici’s florence 208 Caroline Elam 7 republican florence and the arts, 1494–1513 252 Jill Burke ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85162-6 - Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Florence Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Table of Contents More information x CONTENTS 8 florence under the medici pontificates, 1513–1537 290 William E. Wallace 9 cosimoiandthearts 330 Elizabeth Pilliod Bibliography 375 Index 413 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85162-6 - Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Florence Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Table of Contents More information ILLUSTRATIONS S Color Plates XI Andrea di Cione (Orcagna), Tabernacle, Color plates follow pages xxiv, 120, and 208. Orsanmichele, Florence I Giotto, Crucifix, Santa Maria Novella, XII Anonymous, Episodes from the Lives of Florence Diana and Actaeon (obverse side of II Giotto, Trial by Fire, Bardi Chapel, Santa wooden tray). Roscoe and Margaret Croce, Florence Oakes Income Fund, 78.78.M.H.de III Ambrogio Lorenzetti, The Miracle of the Young Memorial Museum, San Resurrected Boy and The Miracle of the Francisco, CA Grain,Uffizi,Florence XIII Spinello Aretino, NiccolodiPietro` IV Taddeo Gaddi, Baroncelli Chapel, Gerini, and Lorenzo di Niccolo,` view of the window wall, Santa Croce, Coronation of the Virgin, Accademia, Florence Florence V Master of the Dominican Effigies, XIV Lorenzo Monaco, Coronation of the Nativity: leaf from the Sant’Agnese Virgin, Uffizi, Florence laudario; Rosenwald Collection XV Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the 1949.5.87, National Gallery of Art, Magi, Uffizi, Florence Washington DC XVI Masaccio (and Brunelleschi?), Trinity VI Bernardo Daddi, Bigallo Triptych,Museo (Throne of Mercy), Santa Maria Novella, del Bigallo, Florence Florence VII Andrea di Cione (Orcagna), Strozzi XVII Masaccio and Masolino, Brancacci Altarpiece, Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Chapel, general view, Santa Maria del Novella, Florence Carmine, Florence VIII Andrea di Bonaiuto, The Way to XVIII Master of the Judgment of Paris, The Salvation, detail of center. Judgment of Paris, Bargello, Florence Chapterhouse, Santa Maria Novella, XIX Fra Filippo Lippi, Annunciation, Martelli Florence Chapel, San Lorenzo, Florence IX Agnolo Gaddi, Cappella Maggiore XX Fra Carnevale, Presentation of the Virgin frescoes, general view, Santa Croce, in the Temple,MuseumofFineArts, Florence Boston X Unknown illuminator, Dormition and XXI Alesso Baldovinetti, Nativity, Chiostrino Assumption of the Virgin, Add. MS dei Voti, Santissima Annunziata, 37,955A, British Library, London Florence xi © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85162-6 - Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Florence Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Table of Contents More information xii ILLUSTRATIONS XXII Maso di Bartolomeo, Reliquary for the XL Rosso Fiorentino, Betrothal of the Virgin, Holy Girdle of the Virgin, Santo San Lorenzo, Florence Stefano, Prato XLI Jacopo Pontormo, Entombment of Christ, XXIII Fra Carnevale, Sleeping Alcove for Capponi Chapel, Santa Felicita, Duke Federico da Montefeltro, Palazzo Florence Ducale, Urbino XLII Jacopo Pontormo and Michelangelo, XXIV Chapel of the Cardinal of Portugal, San Venus and Cupid, Accademia, Florence Miniato al Monte, Florence, general XLIII Jacopo Pontormo, cartoon for a portrait view of Margaret of Austria, National XXV Andrea del Verrocchio, Tomb of Piero Museum, Stockholm and Giovanni di Cosimo de’ Medici, XLIV Agnolo Bronzino, Chapel of Eleonora San Lorenzo, Florence da Toledo, general view, Palazzo della XXVI Domenico Ghirlandaio, Sassetti Chapel, Signoria, Florence Santa Trinita, Florence, general view XLV Francesco Salviati, Camillus’s Triumph XXVII Domenico Ghirlandaio, Tornabuoni after Defeating the Etruscan City of Veio, Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Sala dell’Udienza, Palazzo della general view Signoria, Florence XXVIII Filippino Lippi and Benedetto da XLVI Jacopo Pontormo, The Lament of Jacob Maiano, altar wall of Strozzi Chapel, (tapestry), Palazzo Quirinale, Rome Santa Maria Novella, Florence XLVII Agnolo Bronzino, Saint Sebastian, XXIX Sandro Botticelli, Primavera,Uffizi, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Florence XLVIII Agnolo Bronzino, Cavalcanti Chapel, XXX Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Ginevra de’ Santo Spirito, Florence, reconstruction Benci, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC XXXI Sandro Botticelli, Mystic Nativity, National Gallery, London Figures XXXII Michelangelo, Doni Tondo,Uffizi, Florence 1 Attributed to Nardo di Cione, Judas XXXIII Raphael, Portrait of Agnolo Doni, Palazzo Hanged and Pilate in Prison,Badia, Pitti, Florence Florence page 36 XXXIV Raphael, Portrait of Maddalena Strozzi, 2 Anonymous, Judas Hanged, among the Palazzo Pitti, Florence Damned in Hell (mosaic), Baptistery, XXXV Michelangelo, a seated male nude Florence 37 (figure study for the Battle of Cascina), 3 Arnolfo di Cambio, Virgin and Child British Museum, London Enthroned, Museo dell’Opera del XXXVI Fra Bartolommeo, Sala di Gran Consiglio Duomo, Florence 38 Altarpiece,MuseodiSanMarco, 4 Circle of Bernardo Daddi, Misericordia Florence Domini, detail: view of Florence, Museo XXXVII Jacopo Pontormo, Saint Veronica, del Bigallo, Florence 39 Cappella del Papa, Santa Maria Novella, 5 Giotto workshop, Santa Reparata Florence altarpiece, front, Duomo, Florence 40 XXXVIII Andrea del Sarto, Tribute to Caesar,Gran 6 Giotto workshop, Santa Reparata Salone, Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano altarpiece, back, Duomo, Florence 41 XXXIX Jacopo Pontormo, Vertumnus and 7 Reconstruction of the interior of Santa Pomona, Gran Salone lunette, Villa Croce, Florence, with tramezzo (after Medici, Poggio a Caiano drawing by Leon Satkowski) 43 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85162-6 - Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Florence Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Table of Contents More information ILLUSTRATIONS xiii 8 Cimabue, Crucifix, Museo dell’Opera di Head to Herodias; the Entombment of the Santa Croce, Florence 45 Baptist (mosaics), Baptistery, Florence 69 9 Duccio, Laudesi Madonna,Uffizi, 26 Andrea Arditi, Reliquary Bust of Saint Florence 46 Zenobius, Duomo, Florence 70 10 Giotto, Ognissanti Madonna,Uffizi, 27 Giovanni di Balduccio, Crucifix Florence 47 (polychromed wood), Museo 11 Ugolino di Nerio, Santa Croce polyptych, dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence 71 reconstruction 49 28 Florence, Campanile, view of west face 12 Ambrogio Lorenzetti, San Procolo with reproductions of Andrea Pisano’s triptych, Uffizi, Florence 50 Genesis cycle hexagonal reliefs 72 13 Bernardo Daddi, San Pancrazio polyptych 29 Andrea Pisano, Creation of Adam,Museo (so-called), Uffizi, Florence 51 dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence 73 14 Giotto, The Raising of Drusiana, Peruzzi 30 Andrea Pisano, Weaving,Museo Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence 53 dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence 74 15 Giotto, Bardi Chapel, view of the 31 Andrea Pisano, Sculptor,Museo left-hand wall, Santa Croce, Florence 54 dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence 75 16 Giotto, Stigmatization of Saint Francis, 32 Nardo di Cione, Giovanni del Biondo Bardi Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence 55 and Orcagna, Paradise, Strozzi Chapel, 17 Bardi family tombs, Bardi di Vernio Santa Maria Novella, Florence 81 Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence 56 33 Nardo di Cione, Giovanni del Biondo 18 Taddeo Gaddi, Entombment, Bardi di and Orcagna, Paradise,viewofcentral Vernio Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence 57 lower section, Strozzi Chapel, Santa 19 Giotto, Banquet of Herod, Peruzzi Maria Novella, Florence 82 Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence 59 34 Anonymous, The Plague as Arrows and 20 Taddeo Gaddi, Presentation of the Virgin Corruption (Chronicle of Giovanni into the Temple and Marriage of the Virgin, Sercambi) 82 Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce, 35 Giovanni del Biondo, Saint Sebastian Florence 61 triptych, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, 21 Maso di Banco, Saint Sylvester and the Florence 83 Bull and Saint Sylvester and the Dragon, 36 Giovanni del Biondo, Saint Sebastian Bardi di Vernio Chapel, Santa Croce, triptych, detail of lower scene on left Florence 62 wing, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, 22 Biadaiolo Master, Distribution of Grain in Florence 84 a Time of Famine (from Domenico 37 Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Maesta`,detailof Lenzi’s Biadaiolo Codex), Biblioteca angel punch, Duomo, Massa Marittima 85 Laurenziana, Florence 63 38 House in Piazza Sant’ Elizabetta 23 Pacino di Bonaguida, Chiarito Tabernacle, showing jetty projecting into alley 87 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles 67 39 Giotto, Andrea Pisano, and Francesco 24 Andrea Pisano, The Banquet of Herod; the Talenti, Campanile, Duomo, Florence 88 Beheading of Saint John the Baptist; Salome 40 Aerial view of Duomo, Florence 89 Presenting the Baptist’s Head to Herod; 41 Loggia
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