The Medici
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31075448
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126549
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131253
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131303
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134714
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  alternate name: Portrait painting, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Nobility--Italy--Florence--Portraits--Exhibitions
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  alternate name: Art patronage
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  alternate name: Portraits, Italian--16th century--Exhibitions
abstract: Between 1512 and 1570, Florence underwent dramatic political transformations. As citizens jockeyed for prominence, portraits became an essential means not only of recording likeness but also of conveying a sitter's character, social position, and cultural ambitions. This fascinating book explores the ways that painters, including Jacopo Pontormo, Agnolo Bronzino, and Francesco Salviati, sculptors such as Benvenuto Cellini, and others endowed Florentine portraiture with the erudite and self-consciously stylish character that made it so distinctive. Although the Medici family had ruled Florence since 1434, Cosimo I de Medici, who became the second Duke of Florence in 1537, demonstrated a particularly shrewd use of culture as a political tool to transform Florence into a dynastic duchy and give Florentine art the central position it has held ever since. Featuring 100 remarkable paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and medals, this volume presents a sweeping, penetrating exploration of a crucial and vibrant period in Italian art.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31176719
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Hendler, Sefy, 1972-
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Falciani, Carlo
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Gasparotto, Davide
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Wolk-Simon, Linda
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Mozzati, Tommaso
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Bayer, Andrea
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Fenech Kroke, Antonella
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Pilliod, Elizabeth
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Siemon, Julia
contributor: Person
  alternate name: Cropper, Elizabeth, 1944-
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31021734
language: eng
temporal coverage: 1512-1570
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301311971

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 311971