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Zusatztext 'Solum presents a fresh! innovative interpretation of a familiar masterpiece by Filippo Lippi! illuminating our understanding of a series of related works. This erudite and lucid text offers a new paradigm for the definition of the nature of the artist-patron relationship! especially important for future work on female patronage.' Bruce Edelstein! New York University in Florence'Stefanie Solum opens this stimulating book by discussing a question fundamental for those interested in artistic patronage in Renaissance Florence: whether or not laywomen commissioned significant paintings! sculptures! or buildings in the city during the fifteenth century. ...Lucrezia certainly pursued a religious ideal embodied by the saints! exemplified in religious texts! and outlined in devotional literature. Solum's ingenious utilization of such evidence yields a fascinating hypothesis concerning Lucrezia's role in influencing the creation of a major fifteenth-century painting! as well as a reconstruction of her inner life of prayer and rich religious imagination.' CAA.Reviews Informationen zum Autor Stefanie Solum is Professor of Art History at Williams College! USA. Zusammenfassung Reveals Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's impact on the visual world of her time. This is a full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman's contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. It maps out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power in which Lippi's painting was originally embedded. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Introduction: Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici and the power of female patronage in 15th-century Florence; Saving the Medici; Gendered histories: Lucrezia Tornabuoni's spiritual activism; Choosing the Child Baptist: beyond a civic icon; From outside in: the Child Baptist! Lucrezia Tornabuoni! and the contemplative turn; Garden! forest! and mountain: navigating the Baptist's wilderness in the Palazzo Medici Adoration; Lucrezia Tornabuoni! female piety! and the power of patronage; Works cited; Index. ...
