The art of Mantua :

Furlotti, Barbara.

The art of Mantua : power and patronage in the Renaissance / Barbara Furlotti and Guido Rebecchini ; translated from the Italian by A. Lawrence Jenkens. - Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. - 278 p. : col. ill. ; 33 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-273) and index.

The city from its origins to the medieval period -- From the international Gothic to humanism : art and culture in the fifteenth century -- Isabella d'Este and the culture of the 'studiolo' -- Giulio Romano at the court of Federico Gonzaga -- Art and artists in the time of Cardinal Ercole and Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga -- The creation of a myth : the patronage and collection of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga -- Ferdinando Gonzaga : an intellectual duke -- Mantua from the crisis of 1627-30 to the end of the dynasty in 1708.

0892368403 (hardcover) 9780892368402 (hardcover)

2008004585


Gonzaga family--Art patronage.


Art patronage--Italy--Mantua.
Art, Renaissance--Italy--Mantua.
Art, Italian--Italy--Mantua.


Mantua (Italy)--History.

N5273.2 .G65F87 2008
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