The Florentine Academy of the Early Modern State. The Discipline of Disegno.

BARZMAN, Karen-edis:

ISBN 10: 0521641624 / ISBN 13: 9780521641623

Published by Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 2000., 2000

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Signed, presentation copy of the First Edition. xii, 377 pp; 24 illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. Signed on the title page.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Florentine Academy of the Early Modern State. The Discipline of Disegno.
• Publisher: Cambridge, etc.: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521641624
• ISBN 13: 9780521641623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The Florentine Academy and the Early Modern State R^ constitutes a genealogy of the academic, confraternal, and guild practices of artists in Florence, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. It examines the institution's everyday practices, for which its daily transactions, expenses, sources of income, and seemingly inconsequential rulings provides an index, along with its official statutes, public mandates, and "extraordinary" proceedings, many of which have remained unpublished until now. Together with theoretical, critical and historiographical primary sources, these documents provide a picture of the operations and work of the Florentine Academy and the processes that governed the gestures, dictated the behaviors, and shaped the thought of those who moved within its walls. Looking diachronically at identity formation within a particular institution of the Medici state, this study also examines the connections between the Academy and an emergent public sphere within which modern bourgeois subjectivity took shape.

Book Description

Offered here is an examination of the academic, confraternal, and guild practices of artists in Florence, from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-eighteenth century. Based on archival sources, many of which are published here for the first time, it provides a detailed study of the pedagogy in the institution's school, and also focuses on the public dimension of artists' lives--the performance of corporate charity, devotion, and juridical authority, as well as academic exercises, intellectual exchange, and the development of fora within which dilettantes displayed their wealth and demonstrated their erudition.