Art of Renaissance Florence, 14001600

In this absorbing illustrated history, Loren Partridge takes the reader on an insightful tour of Renaissance Florence and sheds new light on its celebrated art and culture by examining the city's great architectural and artistic achievements in their political, intellectual, and religious contexts. This essential and accessible text, the only up-to-date volume on Renaissance Florence currently available, incorporates insights from recent scholarship, including gender studies, while emphasizing the artists' social status, rivalries, and innovations. The result is a multilevel exploration of how the celebrated Florentine culture formally registers in specific works of art or architecture and how these works interactively informed and often shaped the culture.

Loren Partridge is Professor of the Art of the Italian Renaissance at the University of California, Berkeley. His many books include Michelangelo, Last Judgment: A Glorious Restoration, The Art of Renaissance Rome, 1400-1600, and Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling. He has been honored by Fulbright, Kress, Guggenheim, and Getty fellowships; grants from the American Academy in Rome and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton; and the chairmanship of the departments of both History of Art and Art Practice at Berkeley.

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Renaissance
Humanism
Independent Portraits
Perspective
Narrative
The Human Body
Classicizing Architecture
The Status of Artists

Pre-Renaissance Florence
Roman and Early Medieval Florence
Peoples Government
The Priorate
The Priors Palace
Piazza della Signoria and the Priors Loggia
Final Circuit of Walls and Florentine Expansion
The Cathedral and Or San Michele

I Florence Under the Albizzi and the Medici, 14001494

1 Civic Architecture and Urbanism
Brunelleschis Foundling Hospital
Piazza della SS. Annunziata

2 Freestanding Public Sculpture
Cathedral Buttress Figures
Donatellos Marble David Or San Michele, I
Donatellos St. Mark
Nanni di Bancos Four Crowned Saints
Ghibertis St. John the Baptist
Donatellos St. George
Donatellos St. Louis of Toulouse
Campanile
Donatellos Abraham and Isaac
Donatellos Zuccone
Or San Michele, II
Verrocchios Christ and Doubting Thomas

3 Ecclesiastical Architecture
The Cathedral Dome
S. Lorenzo
The Old Sacristy
The Church
S. Marco
The Church and Monastery
The Library
S. Spirito
The Fade of S. Maria Novella

4 The Baptistery Doors
Competition Reliefs
Brunelleschi
Ghiberti
Ghibertis First Doors
Annunciation
Ghibertis Gates of Paradise
Creation of Adam and Eve, Temptation and Fall, Expulsion from Paradise
Jacob and Esau
Solomon and Sheba

5 Altarpieces and Chapels
S. Maria degli Angeli: Lorenzo Monacos Coronation of the Virgin
S. Maria Novella, I: Masaccios Trinity
S. Maria del Carmine: Masaccio and Masolinos Brancacci Chapel
Temptation and Fall and Expulsion from Paradise
Tribute Money
Peter Heals with His Shadow and Death of Ananias
S. Lorenzo, I: Old Sacristy
Buggianos Sarcophagus
Donatellos Decoration
S. Marco: High Altarpiece and Cells
Fra Angelicos S. Marco Altarpiece
Fra Angelicos Annunciation
SS. Annunziata, I: Castagnos Trinity with St. Jerome
S. Miniato al Monte: The Cardinal of Portugals
Chapel
North Wall
East Wall
West Wall
S. Lorenzo, II
Verrocchios Tomb of Cosimo il Vecchio
Donatellos Bronze Pulpits
Verrocchios Tomb of Piero and Giovanni de Medici, Old Sacristy
SS. Annunziata, II: Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolos
St. Sebastian
S. Trinita: Ghirlandaios Sassetti Chapel
Confirmation of the Rule of St. Francis
St. Francis Resurrects a Boy Who Fell from a Palace
Window in 1266
Nativity
S. Maria Novella, II: Filippino Lippis Strozzi Chapel
St. John Raises Drusiana
St. Philip Exorcises a Dragon

6 Refectories
S. Apollonia: Castagnos Last Supper
S. Marco: Ghirlandaios Last Supper

7 Palaces
The Medici Palace
The Rucellai Palace
The Pitti Palace, I
The Strozzi Palace

8 Halls of State: Palazzo
Vecchio, I
Uccellos Battle of S. Romano
Ghirlandaios Sala dei Gigli

9 Palace Chapels: The Medici Palace
Gozzolis Journey of the Magi
Filippo Lippis Nativity

10 Freestanding Palace Sculpture: The Medici Palace
Donatellos Bronze David
Donatellos Bronze Judith and Holofernes

11 Wedding Chests and Birth Trays
Scheggias Reconciliation between the Romans and the Sabines
Masaccios Lying-in of a Florentine Lady

12 Spalliera Painting
Botticellis Primavera
Botticellis Nastagio degli Onesti

13 Portraits
Uccellos Young Man
Filippo Lippis Lorenzo Scolari and Angiola Sapiti
Piero di Cosimos Cleopatra
Mino da Fiesoles Piero de Medici
Botticellis Woman at a Window
Botticellis Man Holding a Medallion of Cosimo il Vecchio
Leonardos Ginevra de Benci

14 Devotional Works
Donatellos Shaw Madonna
Filippo Lippis Virgin and Child with Two Angels
Botticellis Madonna of the Magnificat
Michelangelos Madonna of the Steps

II Florence Under the Second Republic, 14941512

15 Halls of State: Palazzo Vecchio, II
Sala Grande, I
Leonardos Battle of Anghiari
Michelangelos Battle of Cascina

16 Freestanding Public Sculpture
Michelangelos David

17 Altarpieces
SS. Annunziata: Leonardos St. Anne Cartoon Palazzo Vecchio, Sala Grande: Fra Bartolomeos
St. Anne Altarpiece

18 Portraits
Leonardos Mona Lisa
Raphaels Portraits of Agnolo and Maddalena Doni

19 Devotional Works
Michelangelos Doni Tondo
Raphaels Madonna della Sedia

III Florence Under the Medici Popes, 15131534

20 Civic Architecture and Urbanism
Piazza della SS. Annunziata

21 Freestanding Palace Sculpture: The Medici Palace
Bandinellis Orpheus with Cerberus

22 Chapels and Libraries: S. Lorenzo
Michelangelos New Sacristy
Michelangelos Laurentian Library

23 Altarpieces and Devotional Works
S. Francesco: Sartos Madonna of the Harpies
Rossos Moses Defending and the Daughters of Jethro
S. Felicit Pontormos Deposition

24 Portraits
Sartos Man with a Book
Sartos Woman with Petrarchs Poems
Rossos Young Man

IV Florence Under the Medici Dukes, 15311600

25 Earlier Freestanding Public Sculpture
Bandinellis Hercules and Cacus

26 Palace Chapels: Palazzo Vecchio
Bronzinos Chapel of Eleonora
Altarpiece
Altar Wall and St. Michael
Crossing of the Red Sea and St. Francis

27 Palaces: Pitti Palace, II and Boboli Gardens

28 Churches and Church Decoration
Vasaris Renovation of S. Croce and S. Maria Novella
S. Croce: Vasaris Doubting Thomas

29 Civic Architecture and Urbanism
Tassos Mercato Nuovo
Vasaris Uffizi

30 Later Freestanding Public Sculpture
Cellinis Perseus
Ammannatis Neptune Fountain
Dantis Rigor, Equity, and Cosimo I as Augustus
Giambolognas Cosimo I in Armor
Giambolognas Rape of the Sabines
Giambolognas Equestrian Monument to Cosimo I

31 Portraits
Bronzinos Ugolino Martelli
Bronzinos Cosimo I as Orpheus
Bronzinos Cosimo I in Armor
Bronzinos Eleonora of Toledo with Her Son Giovanni
Vasaris Apotheosis of Cosimo I

32 Halls of State: Palazzo Vecchio, III
Salviatis Sala di Udienza
Bandinelli and Vasaris Sala Grande, II

Genealogy of the Medici
Timeline
Glossary
Artists Biographies
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index