Cosimo de' Medici's Patronage of Architecture and the Theory of Magnificence

Jenkins, Anthony

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“…According to the values of the period, he, not the architect, would have been the founder of the building, the principal agent who set its construction in motionin short, its primum movens. 122 Although different architects often moved through projects successively without necessarily creating problems in respect to assignment of "authorship," the founding patron played a role not so easily transferrable, especially when preserved in the archive of the Signoria was documentation of Dolfini's patronage, with no Medici mentioned. Nevertheless, Manetti evidently took it upon himself not only to transfer Dolfini's primum movens role at S. Lorenzo to Giovanni de' Medici (who served only as one of six operai during the critical years from 1416 to 1419 and, as noted, was absent from the committee during the 1421 founding 123 ) but also to do so in a manner that was as dramatic, complete, and convincing as possible, yet also invisible (which rendered the text even more a Medicean artifact).…”

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Building and Writing S. Lorenzo in Florence: Architect, Biographer, Patron, and Prior

Trachtenberg

2015

The Art Bulletin

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Section: Manetti Romanzierementioning

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Building and Writing S. Lorenzo in Florence: Architect, Biographer, Patron, and Prior

Trachtenberg

2015

The Art Bulletin

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“…118 The literature on Renaissance ideas about magnificence and the civic value of architecture is extensive. Notable studies include: Ago; P. Polcri;Lindow;Kent;Calzona et al, 2002;Rubin, 1995;Green;Jenkins. See also Skinner, 2002, 136-37, 225-27;Skinner, 1978, 127;Elam. activity. The foundations for this body of thought were laid by Timoteo Maffei (1415-70) in his tract against Cosimo's detractors and critics.…”

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Magnificence as a Royal Virtue in Ottoman Jewish Political Thought

Syros

2021

Renaiss. Q.

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Recent years have seen a growing body of literature on relations between Renaissance Italy and the Ottoman Empire. One of the major lacunae in this research concerns the role of the Jews in the transmission of Italian humanist ideas. In order to address this topic, this article will focus on the “Crónica de los reyes otomanos” by the Sephardi polymath Moses ben Baruch Almosnino (ca. 1515–ca. 1580). My goal is to identify a shared set of themes present in Almosnino's thought and key fifteenth-century Italian sources on the correlation between magnificence and good government, and also to shed new light on the influence of Italian humanism in the Ottoman world.

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“…Namreč širokosrčen človek porabi veliko iz plemenitih nagibov, ne troši zase, temveč za skupnost -zato je njegova velikodušnost (magnificenza, magnifi centia) krepost. Veličastnost, s katero se obdaja, je le zunanji izraz njegove notranje krepostnosti, je vidni izraz njegovega dostojanstva in mu zagotavlja spoštovanje, prijateljstvo in avtoriteto (Aristotel, Nikomahova etika, IV, 2, 1122a-1123aJenkins, 1970;Welch, 2000, 221-233;Cole, 1997, 19-42). 3 Prapodoba (vladar) namreč šele s pomočjo podobe (reprezentacije) postane dejanska prapodoba; predstavljeno postane nazorno šele s predstavo.…”

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Umetnost renesančne kapitalistične države

Vidrih¹

2007

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Ključne besede: renesančna teorija umetnosti, retorika, Leon Battista Alberti, Giorgio Vasari, renesančna država, Niccolò MachiavelliŠe vedno veljavni pojem umetnosti se je izoblikoval v renesančni Italiji, prav tam in prav takrat kot kapitalizem in moderno državništvo. Kapitalizem se je začel v severnoitalijanskih mestnih državah 13. stoletja, »otokih v morju fevdalizma«. Med trgovsko ekspanzijo 13. in 14. stoletja je med njimi vladalo nekakšno sodelovanje -vsaka se je specializirala za svoje področje: Firence in Milano za trgovanje s severozahodno Evropo in manufakturno proizvodnjo (prve za tekstilno, drugi za kovinarsko), Benetke in Genova pa za trgovanje z Vzhodom (prve za trgovanje z začimbami v južni Aziji, zadnja za trgovanje s svilo v osrednji Aziji). V začetku 14. stoletja je vzhodnosredozemska trgovina, hrbtenica celotne gospodarske blaginje, zašla v slepo ulico in kapital se je zaradi prenizke profi tne stopnje iz trgovine zatekel v vojskovanje. Leta 1378 so Benetke Genovo premagale in postale vodilna gospodarska sila 15. stoletja. Ko je tudi vojskovanje postalo prej strošek kot pa vir dobička, se je med dotedanjimi tekmeci vzpostavilo novo sodelovanje. Z mirom v Lodiju leta 1454 so institucionalizirali ravnotežje sil in ustvarili meddržavni sistem, v okviru katerega se je razvila večina administrativnih in diplomatskih tehnik poznejših absolutističnih držav. Kapital je ostajal na voljo za luksuzno potrošnjo, nastopil je čas renesanse, buržoazija je svoje moči preusmerila v državništvo -z izjemo Genove, kjer je državne zadeve še naprej upravljala stara zemljiška aristokracija in je kapital v povezavi s špansko državo sodeloval pri prisvajanju s srebrom bogatega ameriškega sveta ter postal vodilna gospodarska sila 16. stoletja.

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Cosimo de' Medici's Patronage of Architecture and the Theory of Magnificence

Cited by 125 publications

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Building and Writing S. Lorenzo in Florence: Architect, Biographer, Patron, and Prior

Building and Writing S. Lorenzo in Florence: Architect, Biographer, Patron, and Prior

Magnificence as a Royal Virtue in Ottoman Jewish Political Thought

Umetnost renesančne kapitalistične države

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