2017 - 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
0821-6653-01 | Art in Florence 1400 to 1600: Between Republic and Dukedom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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FACULTY OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The course will examine selected topics of the Florentine art created over the course of two hundred years. In the period of the Florentine Republic of the 15th century, a major part of the art was the result of public enterprises commissioned by the city government, the guilds and ecclesiastical organizations, but also by individual patrons from the upper bourgeoisie of the city. When Florence became a Grand Dukedom in the 16th century, most of the city art was commissioned by the Grand Dukes of the Medici and was intended to support their aims and requirements. We shall study the iconographical and stylistic issues of this process.