{"product_id":"changing-patrons-jill-burke-9780271023625","title":"Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Cosimo de' Medici? In recent years, scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons, arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burke's \u003ci\u003eChanging Patrons\u003c\/i\u003e, a book that draws heavily upon the author's discoveries in Florentine archives, tracing the many profound transformations in patrons' relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the city's upwardly mobile families, Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social, political, and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eChanging Patrons\u003c\/i\u003e combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by, among others, Botticelli, Filippino Lippi, and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary, the book also casts light on broad issues of identity, power relations, and the visual arts in Florence, the cradle of the Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Burke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271023627\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271023625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/13\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.24h x 7.30w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2004 pg. 648","brand":"Jill Burke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43913533653247,"sku":"9780271023625","price":103.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_9a557a5c-8273-49a4-bb12-a53f9bc5aa0f.jpg?v=1680620899","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/changing-patrons-jill-burke-9780271023625","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}