An Enthusiastic Amateur
Lorenzo de'Medici as Architect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10422167 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beverly Louise Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 1993-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.2307/3039145 |
| OpenAlex | W2319632414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Ottavio Vannini's Fresco, Lorenzo the Magnificent as a Patron of the Arts (Fig. I), forms part of a cycle painted around 1623 in the Palazzo Pitti to celebrate the marriage of Ferdinando II and Vittoria della Rovere. Lorenzo is seen surrounded by artists who proffer the fruits of their creative endeavor. Among them we immediately recognize the young Michelangelo, who presents a marble copy of an antique fawn's head, made, Vasari tells us, at Lorenzo's urging, and to the extreme left Giuliano da Sangallo, who holds under his arm a drawing from the façade of the Medici villa, Poggio a Caiano. The implication of Vannini's fresco is beyond doubt. By evoking the history of the early Medici, the Grand Dukes hoped to establish a framework within which their own glory might shine all the more brilliantly
Amateur · Antique · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Fresco · Glory · Humanities · Painting · Sculpture · Visual arts · History · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,03 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |