Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-85162-6 - Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Florence Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Frontmatter More information ARTISTIC CENTERS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE S This volume examines works of art in a variety of media produced in Florence from 1300 to 1600. Chronologically organized, each chapter exam- ines works of art and architecture within the context of the major political, social, economic, and cultural events of the period. Patterns of patronage, both secular and religious, that accompanied changes in political authority as power shifted from republican regimes to rule by the Medici family and back are also assessed. The volume follows the movements and trends that were initiated by Florentine artists, beginning with Giotto in the fourteenth century; then followed a century later by Masaccio, Donatello, Brunelleschi, and Michelangelo; and, finally, the achievements of sixteenth-century artists such as Cellini, Bronzino, and Vasari. The book is lavishly illustrated in both black and white and color. Francis Ames-Lewis is Emeritus Professor of the History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has edited or coedited ten volumes of collected essays and conference papers and has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals and books. He is the author of several books, including Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy, The Draftsman Raphael,andThe Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist. © 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 Frontmatter More information © 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 Frontmatter More information ARTISTIC CENTERS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE General Editor Marcia B. Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia This series serves as a revisionist history of the arts produced in Italy dur- ing the early modern period, from 1300 to 1600. Each volume focuses on an important center where the arts flourished during these centuries. Exam- ining artworks within their social, religious, and cultural contexts, volumes will analyze all media – painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts – and determine how, during the fifteenth century, humanist ideas and classical models were integrated with long-standing artistic traditions. For the sixteenth century, they establish secular and religious patterns of patronage, the development of theory, the crisis of the Reformation and its effect on the arts, and the profound changes in the arts that resulted from the new norms created by the Council of Trent. Richly illustrated, volumes in this series provide an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of Italian art at a pivotal moment in its history. Other Books in the Series ROME, edited by Marcia B. Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia VENICE AND VENETO, edited by Peter Humfrey, University of St. Andrews THE COURT CITIES OF NORTHERN ITALY, edited by Charles M. Rosenberg, University of Notre Dame Forthcoming NAPLES, edited by Thomas Willette, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Marcia B. Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia © 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 Frontmatter More information © 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 Frontmatter More information ARTISTIC CENTERS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE S edited by Francis Ames-Lewis Birkbeck College, University of London © 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 Frontmatter More information cambridge university press Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao˜ Paulo, Delhi, Tokyo, Mexico City Cambridge University Press 32 Avenue of the Americas, New York, ny 10013-2473, usa www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521851626 C Cambridge University Press 2012 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2012 Printed in the United States of America A catalog record for this publication is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data Florence / [edited by] Francis Ames-Lewis. p. cm. – (Artistic centers of the Italian Renaissance) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-521-85162-6 (hardback) 1. Art, Italian – Italy – Florence. 2. Art, Renaissance – Italy – Florence. I. Ames-Lewis, Francis, 1943– II. Title. III. Series. n6921.f7f49 2011 709.45511 –dc22 2011002721 isbn 978-0-521-85162-6 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party Internet Web sites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such Web sites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © 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 Frontmatter More information In memory of Bill Kent (1942–2010) © 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 Frontmatter More information © 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 Frontmatter 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 Frontmatter 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 Frontmatter 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