Preaching Magnificence in Renaissance Florence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10420671 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Howard (0000-0002-9215-6146, Monash University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 325-369 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/ren.0.0102 |
| OpenAlex | W4211244842 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
The magnificence with which the Florentine Renaissance is synonymous derived its power from a virtue elucidated and disseminated by influential preachers as early as the 1420s. Most notably, Sant’ Antonino Pierozzi O.P. — preacher, reformer, confidant of Cosimo de’ Medici, and eventually the city’s archbishop — drew on and creatively adapted the language of Aquinas and others to forge a public theology of magnificence apposite to the needs of his city and consonant with its republican values. This was well before the mid-1450s and the treatise of Timoteo Maffei which thus far has been the focus of scholarly attention
Archbishop · Art · Art history · Focus (optics · Literature · Power (physics · The Renaissance · Theology · Classics · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.35 |
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| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |