Patronage and Dynasty : : The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy / / ed. by Ian F. Verstegen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bauman, Lisa Passaglia,; Blondin, Jill Elizabeth,; Blume, Andrew C.,; Conelli, Maria Ann,; Fernández, Henry Dietrich,; Fontana, Jeffrey,; Lingo, Stuart,; Murphy, Caroline P.,; Verstegen, Ian,
• HerausgeberIn: Verstegen, Ian F.,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies ; 77
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the lens of one of early modern Italy's most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family's ascent into Italian nobility. The della Rovere was a family of popes, cardinals, and powerful dukes who financed some of the world's best-known and greatest artwork. The essays explore the issue of identity and its maintenance, of carving a permanent spot for a family name in a rapidly changing atmosphere.Although these studies depart from art patronage, they uncover how the popes, cardinals, dukes, and signore of the della Rovere family constituted their identity. Originally a nouveau-riche creation of papal nepotism, the della Rovere first populated the ranks of cardinals under the powerful popes Sixtus IV and Julius II. Within the framework of later papal relations, the family negotiated its position within the economy of Italian nobles.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I THE BEGINNING -SIXTUS IV -- The Sistine Chapel, Dynastic Ambition, and the Cultural Patronage of Sixtus IV -- Pope Sixtus IV at Assisi: -- PART II ECCLESIASTICS -- Piety and Public Consumption: -- Avignon to Rome: -- Reform and Renewed Ambition: -- PART III SIGNORE -- Felice della Rovere and the Castello at Palo -- The Ecclesiastical Patronage of Isabella Feltria della Rovere: -- PART IV THE DUCAL EXPERIENCE -- Francesco Maria and the Duchy of Urbino, between Rome and Venice -- Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Federico Barocci, and the Taste for Titian at the Court of Urbino -- Francesco Maria della Rovere and Federico Barocci: -- Appendix-della Rovere Family Tree -- Contributors -- Index