Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution by Hollingsworth, Mary

Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art...
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Author: Mary Hollingsworth
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Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution by Hollingsworth, Mary

Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

CHF 56.07

Princes of the Renaissance: The Hidden Power Behind an Artistic Revolution

CHF 56.07
Author: Mary Hollingsworth
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A vivid history of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance.

The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was an era of dramatic political, religious, and cultural change in the Italian peninsula, witnessing major innovations in the visual arts, literature, music, and science.

Princes of the Renaissance charts these developments in a sequence of eleven chapters, each of which is devoted to two or three princely characters with a cast of minor ones--from Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and from Isabella d'Este of Mantua to Lucrezia Borgia. Many of these princes were related by blood or marriage, creating a web of alliances that held Renaissance society together--but whose tensions could spark feuds that threatened to tear it apart.

A vivid depiction of the lives and times of the aristocratic elite whose patronage created the art and architecture of the Renaissance, Princes of the Renaissance is a narrative that is as rigorous and definitively researched as it is accessible and entertaining. Perhaps most importantly, Mary Hollingsworth sets the aesthetic achievements of these aristocratic patrons in the context of the volatile, ever-shifting politics of an age of change and innovation.

Author: Mary Hollingsworth
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 504
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9781643135465


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/02/2020
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2020
Foreword 02/26/2021

About the Author
Mary Hollingsworth is a scholar of the Italian Renaissance. She is the author of The Family Medici; The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty; and Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century. She divides her time between Italy and England.

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