Painting, power, and patronage : the rise of the professional artist in the italian renaissance / Bram Kempers ; traducción Beverley Jackson.

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The Renaissance according to Vasari -- Patronage and cultural history -- A sociological approach to art history -- Blanks in history -- A historical survey -- pt. I. Mendicant Orders -- 1. Popes, cardinals and friars -- The function of images in churches -- The patronage of the papal court -- Curia and Franciscans in Assisi -- Upper Church: the history of the order -- Lower Church: patrons and saints -- Mendicant churches and the dissemination of images -- 2. A new system of panel paintings -- From sacred to profane: a spatial hierarchy -- The people's saints -- Monumental panel paintings for the laymen's choir -- Altarpieces for the monks' choir -- A new saint in the canon's choir of St Peter's -- 3. A far-flung and diversified network of patrons -- Courts -- City communes -- Merchant families -- Mendicant orders -- pt. II. The Republic of Sienna -- 1. The formation and structure of a city-state -- Legislation -- A virtuous state and its culture -- Civic patronage -- Sienna within Europe -- 2. The Cathedral -- Bishop and canons: power and liturgy -- Alterations to the Cathedral (1250-1350) -- Civic processions and the Battle of Montaperti -- Works of art in the Cathedral -- Duccio's Maesta: Sienna's sacred emblem -- Side altars and city saints -- Images sacred and secular -- The city and the friars -- Church and state: a wider view -- 3. The Town Hall: seat of power, seat of patronage -- The first commissions -- The territory: the Globe Room Good and Bad Government: the Peace Room -- 4. The profession of painting -- Patronage and professionalization -- Duccio: master of an age -- Duccio's successors: art as a profession -- Simone Martini, court painter of Avignon -- Of painters by writers -- Working as a painter: conditions of employment -- Continuity and stagnation -- Sienna in relation to Florence and Rome -- Innovation in Sienna: incidental developments -- A new era: courtly patrons and painters from Rome -- PartIII. Florentine Families --

1. The professionalization of painters in Florence -- Organizations and status -- New skills and techniques -- Historiography and theory -- 2. Patronage: commissions and negotiations -- The social background of Florentine painting -- The foundation of chapels: gifts and obligations -- Commissions: money, religion and art -- 3. Sacred images and social history -- Friars versus families -- The Medici commissions -- Family saints -- Portraits of honour and shame -- The Sassetti chapel: influence in images -- The Tornabuoni chapel: family monument in a mendicant church -- 4. Civilization and state formation -- Families and the ideals of civilization -- Republican Florence and courtly states -- pt. IV. The Courts of Urbino, Rome and Florence -- 1. Federico da Montefeltro: knight, scholar and patron of art -- Aristocratic culture -- The state expands -- Palace, court and scholars -- Altarpieces and courtly authority -- Magnificent manuscripts -- Portraits of princes and scholars Courtly patronage -- Professionalization and court painters --

2. The pope as statesman and patron -- The Papal State in Europe -- The new St Peter's and the Julius Monument -- Christian imagery and the School of Athens (1509) -- Political propaganda, 1511-12 -- Laws, powers and ideals: Disputa and Justice frescoes -- Monopolies of force and taxation in the Stanza d'Eliodoro -- Triumphal processions -- State symbolism under Leo X -- Painters and Curia patronage -- 3. Cosimo I and Vasari: excellence in government and in art -- The duke of the Republic -- Demolition and renovation in mendicant churches -- The founding of the Accademia del Disengno -- History and theory of art -- pt. V. Social Contexts to the Present Day -- 1. Italy, 1200-1600: a first Renaissance -- Professionalization -- Patronage -- State formation and civilization -- 2. Looking forward: 1600-1900 -- 3. The twentieth century: art in flux -- New powers and the decline of patronage -- The rise of the collector -- Modern art: a second Renaissance.