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This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.
List of contents
1. Introducing a family: The Tornabuoni; 2. Honoring a sister: Domenico Ghirlandaio's portrait of Lucrezia Tornabuoni; 3. Immortalizing a family: the Tornabuoni family medals by Niccolò Fiorentino; 4. Praising a bride: Niccolò Fiorentino's medals for Giovanna degli Albizzi; 5. Complimenting a new couple: Ghirlandaio-School Spalliere for Lorenzo and Giovanna; 6. Commemorating the family: the Tornabuoni Chapel at Santa Maria Novella; 7. Memorializing a lost wife: Ghirlandaio's paintings for Giovanna degli Albizzi; 8. Celebrating a second marriage: Botticelli's frescoes for the Tornabuoni Villa; 9. Continuing the tradition: Lorenzo's sons as art patrons; 10. Conclusion; Appendix A. Giovanni Tornabuoni's letters to Lucrezia Tornabuoni; Appendix B. Tornabuoni inventory bibliography; Index.
About the author
Maria DePrano is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Merced. She has published articles in Viator, The Medal, and Renaissance Studies. Her work has been supported by fellowships from the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and the Fulbright Program.
Summary
This book examines the art commissioned by Tornabuoni men for themselves and the family's women in fifteenth-century Florence, within their societal, domestic, and religious contexts, expanding Renaissance studies for scholars of art history, literature, history, gender studies, material culture studies, museum specialists, graduate and undergraduate courses, and general readers.
