The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance
Subtitle: art for the early Tudors
By: edited by Cinzia Maria Sicca and Louis A. Waldman
Series: Studies in British art -- 22
Publisher: Yale Center for British Art and The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780300176087
Subjects: Renaissance Art; Art; ART / European; HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain; HISTORY / Europe / Italy; Italian Art; History; ART / History / Renaissance; Art patronage
Description: "Under the rule of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509) England became a powerful nation. The Tudor court sought to express its worldliness and political clout through major artistic commissions, employing Florentine sculptors and painters to create lavish new interiors, suitable for entertaining foreign dignitaries, for its royal palaces. These were exemplified by Henry VIII's palace of Nonsuch, so named because no other palace could match its magnificence. Italian sculpture, painting, and tapestries of the day reflected an interest in portraiture and dynastic monuments, epitomized in England by the royal tomb projects created by Baccio Bandinelli, Benedetto da Rovezzano, and Pietro Torrigiani. Generously illustrated throughout, The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance traces the artistic links between Medicean Florence and Tudor England through essays by an international team of scholars and explores how the language of Florentine art effectively expressed England's political aspirations and rose to prominence as a new international courtly style"--
Notes: This book originated in a conference, entitled "Henrici-Medici: Artistic Links between the Early Tudor Courts and Medicean Florence," that took place on September 19-21, 2007, at Villa I Tatti, the  Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence.

Includes bibliographical references and index.