Baccio Bandinelli And Art At The Medici Court: Corpus Of Early Modern Sources.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Small abrasions. Overall very good and clean. - Leichter Abrieb. Insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - More than five centuries after his birth, the contradictions embodied by the Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560) remain as mysterious as ever. Revered by contemporaries as one of the most important sculptors of his time, he was reviled by his enemies as a truculent, foul-mouthed, avaricious, sycophantic, craven humbug�the farcical image immortalized as the character of Fieramosca in Berlioz's 1838 opera Benvenuto Cellini. But the originality and power of Bandinelli's work, and the long shadow it cast over the arts in sixteenth-century Florence and Rome, are as unmistakably clear today as they were to the artist's Medici patrons, who recognized his art as a potent tool for constructing an image of dynastic legitimacy. -- Based on a decade of research in archives all over Italy, Baccio Bandinelli and Art at the Medici Court: A Corpus of Early Modem Sources brings this great but often neglected Renaissance artist into sharper focus for modem scholarship. It comprises a comprehensive collection of the documentation on Bandinelli's life and work. The great majority of the texts included in this volume were discovered by the author and are published for the first time, and many come from the private archive of the Bandinelli family. -- This book presents a rich, balanced, and at times surprising picture of an artist whose career has all too often been viewed through the jaundiced eyes of his enemies especially Giorgio Vasari and Benvenuto Cellini�whose far from impartial accounts have long exerted an unduly preponderant influence on Bandinelli's place in art history. All of Bandinelli's major artistic commissions are fully documented, as is his establishment of one of the earliest artistic academies. The sources presented here make it possible to know Baccio with a degree of intimacy that has few parallels in the historiography of Renaissance art. In this rich mosaic of contemporary sources, one can watch Bandinelli wringing commissions and rewards from his patrons, and one can hear his pithy views on art, artists, and the Medici family. But there are also many glimpses of Baccio the man�his amorous exploits, his brawls at fisticuffs, and his persistent struggles to elevate himself to the status of the Florentine patriciate through a trumped-up claim of nobility. -- All the documents are furnished with historical commentary and textual apparatus discussing their broader historical context, problems of chronology and interpretation, and later interpolations�including hundreds of forged passages inserted by the artist's grandson, the genealogist Baccio Bandinelli the Younger (1578-1636), whose role as forger of the Bandinelli legacy is exposed here for the first time. Contents: -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronological Survey of Bandinelli�s Career -- Editorial Notes -- Note on Currencies, Weights, and Measures Found in the Documents . -- List of Illustrations -- The Documents -- The Bandinelli Chapter from Doni�s Disegno (1549). . . -- Baccio Bandinelli�s Manuscript Libro del disegno -- Cinquecento Poems Referring to Bandinelli and His Sculptures -- List of Works Cited in Abbreviated Form in the Notes. ISBN 9780871692511

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