list of b&amp;w illustration and maps, preface, I. Premises and Vestiges; II. Facts of Exclusion and Exile in Medieval Italy; III. Dante and His Judges: Rules of Exclusion in the Early Fourteenth Century; IV. Facts and Rules of Inclusion: Exiles in the World of Renaissance States; V. The Voices of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy; epilogue, notes, index. ``Drawing on a wide range of sources, this book traces the hitherto unwritten history of a 'contrary commonwealth' of exile from its open and collective resistance during the Middle Ages to its submission to Renaissance regimes that were forerunners of the modern state." from the jacket flap.

Contrary Commonwealth: The Theme of Exile in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

History

Starn, Randolph

Europe

Univ. Of California Pr.

Jacob Burckhardt claimed that the state in Renaissance Italy became "a work of art". In this book, the authors illiminate the corollary: that art in Italy became a work of state. They study centres of power under three distinctive governments - a civic republic of the 14th century, a princely court of the 15th, and an absolutist state of the 16th. The authors argue that, no less than armies, laws and taxes, painted halls of state were strategic instruments, tactical weapons and technical machines of government. The three rooms examined here are Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Sala dei Nove in Siena (1338-40), Andrea Mantegna's Camera Picta in Mantua (1465-74), and Giorgio Vasari's Sala Grande in Florence (1563-71), where the wedding procession of Giovanna of Austria and Francesco de'Medici culminated in 1565. The authors investigate the rooms as monuments of public art transformed by fundamental changes in political regimes, artistic practices and cultural values. They posit that far from merely reflecting political messages, the art both constructed and contested ideology. It follows that instead of looking through art objects for the realities allegedly underlying them, the authors see the signs encoded in art as a kind of reality. The authors go beyond secure frontiers of history and art to a field of inquiry that locates the material of investigation in a shifting calculus of relations between images, texts and circumstances. They understand art as a form of power while charting the operations of power in the forms of art.

Arts of Power: Three Halls of State in Italy, 1300-1600 (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)

Arts & Photography

Partridge, Loren

History & Criticism

University of California Press

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael's Julius II (Quantum Books)

A Renaissance Likeness: Art and Culture in Raphael's Julius II (Quantum Books)

World

one of the pioneering fresco cycles of th early Renaissance

Ambrogio Lorenzetti: The Palazzo Pubblico, Siena (The Great Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance)

Lorenzetti, Ambrogio

George Braziller, Inc.

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