The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance
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Art for the Early Tudors
Edited by Cinzia Maria Sicca and Louis A. Waldman; With a foreword by Brian Allen and Joseph Connors
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Under the rule of Henry VII (r. 1485-1509) England became a powerful nation. The Tudor court sought to express its worldliness and political clout through major artistic commissions, employing Florentine sculptors and painters to create lavish new interiors, suitable for entertaining foreign dignitaries, for its royal palaces. These were exemplified by Henry VIII's palace of Nonsuch, so named because no other palace could match its magnificence. Italian sculpture, painting, and tapestries of the day reflected an interest in portraiture and dynastic monuments, epitomized in England by the royal tomb projects created by Baccio Bandinelli, Benedetto da Rovezzano, and Pietro Torrigiani.
Generously illustrated throughout, The Anglo-Florentine Renaissance traces the artistic links between Medicean Florence and Tudor England through essays by an international team of scholars and explores how the language of Florentine art effectively expressed England's political aspirations and rose to prominence as a new international courtly style.
Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Essays by Steven Gunn, Cinzia Sicca, Alan P. Darr, Louis Waldman, Benedetta Matucci, Francesco Caglioti, Giancarlo Gentilini and Tommaso Mozzati, Sheryl E. Reiss, Maurice Howard, Susan Foister, Martin Biddle
Publication Date: July 17, 2012
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
110 color + 20 b/w illus.
