AHIS 430 COURSE FLYER
AHIS 430: Studies in Renaissance Art (12000D)
Instructor: Sheryl Reiss Monday 2:00 – 4:50 • VKC 260 Spring 2011
Between the early fifteenth and the later sixteenth centuries, the Medici family of Florence rose from the ranks of the city's merchant bankers to become virtual rulers of the republic, cardinals and popes in Rome, and, eventually, hereditary dukes and grand dukes of Tuscany. Much of the family's power and fame derived from two kinds of patronage: the social and political patronage that first established their faction and then enabled them to maintain control; and the artistic and cultural patronage that was central both to the fashioning of the family's image and to the realization of its princely ambitions. This course will explore the connections between the two types of patronage employed so effectively by the Medici. To do so, we will focus on works of art and architecture, on primary source materials, and on recent scholarship concerned with the Medici in particular and, more broadly, with patronage in Renaissance Italy.
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