Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Publications Subsidy

Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City
Nevola, Fabrizio. 2007. Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City. New Haven: Yale University Press, 303. Publisher's Version Abstract
Architecture and civic ideology in fourteenth-century Siena -- Imperial visit of Sigismund of Luxemburg: the urban experience of ritual (1432-1453) -- Urban renewal and domestic architecture between the imperial visits of Sigismund I (1432) and Frederick III (1453) -- Pius II Piccolomini and architectural patronage in Siena -- 'La città magnificata': urban magnificence and civic image -- Word on the street: the strada romana and its users (c. 1460-1480) -- Rewriting the city's pasts in stone: humanists, antiquarians and the built fabric -- Palaces, politics and history: the architecture of the Novesco oligarchy -- Stratified city: oligarchy and urban form.
Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting
Lingo, Stuart. 2008. Federico Barocci: Allure and Devotion in Late Renaissance Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, 292. Publisher's Version Abstract
Retrospection and modernity -- Orders of reform -- Vision and icon -- Returning towards the source -- Legacy of the Renaissance and the contemporary cult image -- Quest for vaghezza -- What's in a word: vaghezza in the language of criticism -- Figures of vaghezza -- Other vaghezze: painting the loveliness of the world -- Colors of vaghezza: ornament, desire, and spiritual fervor in Barocci's coloring -- Ut pictura musica.
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.

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