Francesco II Gonzaga and maps as palace decoration in renaissance Mantua

Bibliographic Data

ID11939780
AuthorsMolly Bourne (Medici Archive Project, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume51
Issue1
Pages51-82
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueImago Mundi (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0308-5694 • E-ISSN: 1479-7801
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085699908592903
OpenAlexW1976420198
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited16

Francesco II Gonzaga, fourth Marquis of Mantua (1484–1579), commissioned sophisticated painted cycles of maps and city views for his two country palaces at Gonzaga and Marmirolo and for his Mantuan townhouse, the Palazzo di San Sebastiano. Archival research enables us to reconstruct these lost cartographical ensembles, which constitute important early examples of a genre of palace decoration which became fashionable in Renaissance Italy. Francesco's efforts to collect the highest‐quality cartographical materials for the creation of these map cycles are chronicled in his correspondence, which reveals him to have been a well‐informed patron, capable of uncompromising standards and discriminating taste

Art · Art history · Cartography · Geography · Taste · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century · Historical Geography and Cartography · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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