Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio: 29 (California Studies in the History of Art) - Hardcover

Cox-Rearick, Janet

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ISBN 10: 0520074807 ISBN 13: 9780520074804

Verlag: University of California Press, 1993

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Book by CoxRearick Janet

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The Chapel of Eleonora was the first painted chapel to be commissioned by the Medici in the 16th century. Was the chapel a gift from Duke Cosimo to his bride, Eleonora? Or did she commission a chapel in order to have private devotions in her native Spanish? These and other speculations are addressed in Cox-Rearick's book. Her study is the first monograph on Agnolo Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora of Toledo. Bronzino, chief painter to the Medici court, was largely responsible for the invention in Florence of the highly self-conscious, elegant Maniera style. Cox-Rearick interweaves her account of the Medici biography with an examination of Bronzino's commission in the broader context of his oeuvre. Cox-Rearick reveals the Chapel of Eleonora as an intimately devised decorative programme that transmits messages about its patrons and Medici rule. Detailed colour photographs of the newly restored art document this early tour de force by a major artist whose works are still relatively unexamined.

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"Cox-Rearick indicates that the iconographic program of the chapel was, from its initiation, linked to an astonishing degree to the fortunesactual and anticipatedof the young Duke Cosimo and that the successive changes in the chapel were occasioned by political events and by revised and increasingly ambitious Medici pretensions."Malcolm Campbell, University of Pennsylvania

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520074807
• ISBN 13: 9780520074804
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 445