Hidden in plain sight : covert criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence. Medieval Interventions; vol. 6.

Sehr gutes Exemplar. - Englisch. - Hidden in Plain Sight: Covert Criticism of the Medici in Renaissance Florence offers the first systematic study of an important and heretofore insufficiently-studied phenomenon in Renaissance Europe. Through a close examination of a wide variety of visual and textual materials, James O. Ward illuminates the means by which Florentine citizens�among them several of the most famous artists and writers of the time, such as Michelangelo, Machia-velli, and Vasari�managed, in an increasingly authoritarian political and cultural climate, to express their disaffection with the prevailing political and cultural status quo in relatively safe ways, while at the same time maintaining contact with those rulers whom they criticized, upon whom they often depended for their livelihoods. Ward's volume thus offers new and provocative interpretations of some of the most famous works of Italian Renaissance visual and textual culture�for example, Michelangelo's New Sacristy in Florence, Machiavelli's Prince, and Vasari's portrait of Lorenzo de' Medici�which have traditionally been viewed by scholars of the period as encomiastic celebrations of their patrons' power and prestige. The volume thus provides�besides its intimate view of power relations between some of Florence's most creative artists and writers and those they served�fresh perspectives on the important question of patron-artist relations during the period. . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : List of Figures ----- Acknowledgements ----- Preface ----- Introduction ----- Chapter One: Reading Machiavelli Rhetorically:The Prince as Covert Criticism of the Renaissance Prince ----- Chapter Two: Florentia capta: Michelangelo's Sagrestia Nuova as Covert Critique of Medici Rule ----- Chapter Three: The Compagnia della Cazzuola as Locus of Opposition to Medici Rule ----- Chapter Four: An Academy of Misers:The Compagnie della Lesina and Antilesina as Loci of Opposition to Medici and Imperial Rule in mid-Cinquecento Italy ----- Index. ISBN 9781433134289