Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Publications Subsidy

The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome
Wright, Alison. 2005. The Pollaiuolo Brothers: The Arts of Florence and Rome. New Haven: Yale University Press, 575. Publisher's Version Abstract
The lives of Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo -- The formation of the "maestro di disegno" and Antonio del Pollaiuolo's work as a goldsmith -- The earliest paintings and the "Labours of Hercules" -- The development of secular subjects -- Portraiture -- Design and invention -- The Florentine altarpieces -- Painting for the city -- Designing for the city -- Piero del Pollaiuolo : the later independent works -- Small scale bronzes -- The tomb of Sixtus IV -- The tomb of Innocent VIII -- The legacy of the Pollaiuolo brothers.
Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna
Murphy, Caroline. 2003. Lavinia Fontana: A Painter and Her Patrons in Sixteenth-Century Bologna. New Haven: Yale University Press, 236. Publisher's Version Abstract
Art and society in sixteenth-century Bologna -- The making of a woman artist -- Pictures for scholars, prelates, poets, and Bankers -- Gentildame et Honeste Matrone : representing the Bolognese noblewoman -- Laudomia Gozzadini and her Family portrait -- La vita vedovile : the art of widowhood -- Painting for the children of Bologna.
Cosimo De' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre
Kent, Dale. 2000. Cosimo De' Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre. New Haven: Yale University Press, 537. Publisher's Version Abstract
Part I - The patron's oeuvre -- Cosimo's oeuvre -- Cosimo's letters -- Learning the lessons of Florentine culture : who Cosimo knew -- Educating the patron : what Cosimo read -- Part II - The common culture of the Florentine audience : the Medici share in this -- Venues and performances -- Compilations and the corpus of texts -- Popular devotion and the prerception of images -- Images of Florentine patronage refracted through popular culture -- Part III - Cosimo's religious commissions -- Expiation, charity, intercession -- Building "for the honor of God, and the honor of the city, and the memory of me" -- Part IV - The house of the Medici -- The palace : Measuring self on the urban map -- Accommodating the patron -- The chapel in the heart of the palace : A microcosm of Medici patronage -- Part V - The patron as "auctor" -- Patrons and their artists : "the variety of genius" -- The patron's choice : princes, patricians, partisans -- Conclusion : An oeuvre defines its patron : Cosimo's visable image -- Appendix A : A list of what appear to be popular miscellanies compiled from the Pupilli record.

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