Title: Art and politics in Renaissance Italy : British Academy lectures /
Authors: Holmes, George, 1927-2009; British Academy.
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Art, Renaissance Italy; Art, Italian; Art and state Italy.; Art patronage Italy.
Abstract: Our modern conception of the Renaissance has been changed substantially by the scholarship of the last 50 years, and the British contribution to this research has been enormous. An essential part of this scholarship is contained within this lavishly illustrated selection of lectures delivered by distinguished historians to the British Academy. The lectures cover the period circa 1400 to 1520 and illustrate two aspects of Italy in this period, the political background to the great cultural flowering, and the art of Florence and Rome.
Contents: Introduction / George Holmes -- Morals and Manners of the Quattrocento / C.M. Ady -- Florence and the Great Schism / George Holmes -- Cyriac of Ancona / Bernard Ashmole -- Flavio Biondo and the Middle Ages / Denys Hay -- Leon Battista Alberti and the Beginnings of Italian Grammar / Cecil Grayson -- Lorenzo de'Medici: the Formation of his Statecraft / Nicolai Rubinstein -- Diplomacy and War in Later Fifteenth-Century Italy / Michael Mallett -- The Conscience of the Prince / D.M. Bueno de Mesquita -- The Vatican Stanze: Functions and Decoration / John Shearman -- The Decoration of the Sistine Chapel / Johannes Wilde -- Michelangelo's Prophets and Sibyls / Edgar Wind.