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The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist

Projects and Patrons, Workshop and Art Market

Martin Wackernagel author Alison Luchs translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Toronto Press

Published:5th Mar '11

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First published in German in 1938 and later translated into English, this classic of Italian Renaissance historiography centres on the relationship between Florentine art and the conditions under which it was created. In rich detail, Martin Wackernagel explores the impact of patronage and function, widespread demand for art, workshop techniques, and businesses practices on artists' lives and the results they achieved

Wackernagel stresses the changing roles of commissions and patrons in the late fourteenth to the early fifteenth centuries, from small-scale enterprise under Lorenzo de Medici to the large-scale development of major Florentine monuments. Through this, he highlights the development of major civic and religious artistic complexes such as the Palazzo Vecchio, the Cathedral and Baptistery, and the convent of Santa Maria Novella. This volume also features a biography of the author and an essay on important later publications related to Wackernagel's themes and arguments.

ISBN: 9781442611849

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 32mm

Weight: 780g

488 pages