Cosimo I de' Medici and his Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture
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Cosimo I de' Medici and his Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture

Cosimo I de' Medici and his Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture

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Henk Th. van Veen (Author)  

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In this study, first published in 2006, Henk Th. van Veen reassesses how Cosimo de' Medici represented himself in images during the course of his rule. Traditionally, Cosimo is seen to be posing as a republican prince in the images made of him during the early years of his reign; as his power grew, he represented himself as a proud dynastic and territorial ruler. By contrast, van Veen argues that Cosimo represented himself as a lofty ruler in the initial phase of his regime, but that from 1559 onwards he posed as a citizen-prince. Analyzing all of Cosimo's major commissions, both art and architecture, to support his argument, van Veen also examines historiographical and literary evidence, as well as the civic traditions, rites, and customs that Cosimo promoted in sixteenth-century Florence.
Henk Th. van Veen is Professor of Art History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. A scholar of Italian Renaissance art, he is author of Tuscany and the Low Countries: An Introduction to the Sources and An Inventory of Four Florentine Libraries and editor (with Frans Grijzenhout) of The Golden Age of Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective, and has contributed to the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Burlington Magazine, and Prospectives.
  • Contributor: Henk Th. van Veen
  • Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781107619319
  • Number of Pages: 280
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234x16mm
  • Packaged Weight: 430
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Release Date: 2013-07-25
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Henk Th. van Veen is Professor of Art History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. A scholar of Italian Renaissance art, he is author of Tuscany and the Low Countries: An Introduction to the Sources and An Inventory of Four Florentine Libraries and editor (with Frans Grijzenhout) of The Golden Age of Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective, and has contributed to the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Burlington Magazine, and Prospectives.

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