Item #159728 Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio. Janet Cox-Rearick.
Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio
Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio

Bronzino's Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Hardcover. Evergreen cloth/boards; gilt lettering. Bright blue dj with color image; white lettering on spine. xxx, 445 pp. with 33 color plates and 187 bw figures. Heavy at 7 pounds and will require extra postage. VG-/VG-. light rubbing or bumping to corners; creases & wear to spine ends; toning to pg edges. may be signed/inscribed on ffep to former NY gallery owner. dustjacket scuffed & scratched; edge-wear; rubbing to corners; tear spine edge. Item #159728
ISBN: 9780520074804

Do the sacred decorations of a Florentine Renaissance chapel—saints, symbols, and scriptural stories—hold personal and political meanings? Cox-Rearick's ground-breaking book explores the message hidden in the frescoes and altar panels of the Chapel of Eleonora di Toledo, painted in the early 1540s by Agnolo Bronzino for the Spanish-born wife of Duke Cosimo I de Medici. Bronzino, then the chief painter to the Medici court, was largely responsible for the invention in Florence of the highly self-conscious, elegant Maniera style. Cox-Rearick interweaves her account of the Medici biography with an examination of Bronzino's commission in the broader context of his oeuvre. Cox-Rearick reveals the Chapel of Eleonora as an intimately devised decorative program that transmits messages about its patrons and Medici rule. Detailed color photographs of the newly restored art splendidly document this early tour de force of a major artist whose works are still relatively unexamined. - from the dj.

OCLC: 464049946

Price: $40.00

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