Lila Acheson Wallace - Reader’s Digest Publications Subsidy

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.

Mannerism and imitation -- Gigantum arrogantia: Raphael vs. Michelangelo in Perino del Vaga -- Daniele da Volterra's contested subject -- Pellegrino Tibaldi's Apologus Alcinoi -- Painting and counter-reformation in the Poggi Chapel."Explores the imitation of Michelangelo by three artists, Perino del Vaga, Daniele da Volterra, and Pellegrino Tibaldi, from the 1520s to the time around Michelangelo's death in 1564. Argues that his Mannerist followers applied imitation to identify with and/or create ironical distance from to the older artist"--Provided by publisher.

"The core of this book is the catalogue of the Italian sources of Dürer's artwork; the chronological organization of the entries helps to trace a new image of Dürer as both a theorist of art and science, and a master engraver and painter, with results that substantially change our vision of his relationship with Italy. The volume also offers a first analytical index of Dürer's treatises kept in the Italian libraries"--Provided by publisher.

Nicholas IV: a Franciscan pope -- Power and patronage at Assisi -- The Upper Church in 1288 -- Planning the nave programme -- 'Franciscus alter Christus' -- Rebuilding the church -- Ascending to God, descending to neighbour."For a brief moment at the close of the 13th century, the town of Assisi was the focus for the two greatest powers in the Latin Church: the Roman papacy and the Franciscan Order. The election in 1288 of Nicholas IV, the first Franciscan pope, was the catalyst for the creation of frescoes of unprecedented intellectual ambition in the Basilica of San Francesco. At the heart of the new decorative scheme were twenty-eight scenes depicting the life of Saint Francis. Putting to one side the long debate about whether the Saint Francis cycle was or was not painted by Giotto, The Making of Assisi takes a fresh approach and treats the cycle as part of a larger, integrated, and far-reaching program of renewal at the Basilica. ... Donal Cooper and Janet Robson investigate the particular historical moment in which the frescoes were made, casting new light on their patronage and iconography."--Publisher's website.

The piazza -- The palace. The Medici family ; Palazzo Pitti ; Don Giovanni dei Medici ; Benedetto Blanis at court -- The ghetto. Benedetto at home ; The Blanis family ; The creation of the ghetto ; Segregation, conversation, and confusion ; Ghetto government ; Benedetto's neighbours -- The synagogue. The synagogue as it was ; On the bench ; Men of authority ; Quarrels and dissension ; Italians and Levantines -- Memory and survival. The Jewish year ; Home and family ; Observance ; Justice and commandments -- The market. Shopping ; Market and ghetto ; Blanis and sons ; Stolen goods ; Scrocchi Barocchi ; Rich Jews -- Knowledge and power. Books ; Tree of Kabbalah ; Medicean planets ; Silver, gold, and grappa ; The fish pond -- Games of chance. Porta al prato ; Risky business ; Jew mad Christian -- The mirror of truth. On the road ; Venice ; The mirror of truth ; At home with Livia and Don Giovanni ; Fire at the fair ; Florence -- The magic circle. Fellow travellers ; The late Cosimo Ridolfi ; The workshop ; The apprentice -- Curious and forbidden books. Passover and Easter ; Days of scruples ; Holy cross ; Bad Jew ; Business as usual (I) ; Divine favours ; Jews and converts ; Business as usual (II) -- Prison. Misery and woe ; Beginning of the end ; Cosmic battle ; Out of sight and out of mind -- Habeas Corpus?

Rapt attention -- Aural collecting -- Proper listening -- Noble and manly understanding -- Envoy : from gusto to goût.