{"product_id":"changing-patrons-social-identity-and-the-visual-arts-in-renaissance-florence-9780271023625","title":"Changing Patrons: Social Identity and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Florence","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy  discerning patrons like Cosimo de Medici? In recent years  scholars have attributed great importance to the role played by patrons  arguing that some should even be regarded as artists in their own right. This approach receives sharp challenge in Jill Burkes Changing Patrons  a book that draws heavily upon the authors discoveries in Florentine archives  tracing the many profound transformations in patrons relations to the visual world of fifteenth-century Florence. Looking closely at two of the citys upwardly mobile families  Burke demonstrates that they approached the visual arts from within a grid of social  political  and religious concerns. Art for them often served as a mediator of social difference and a potent means of signifying status and identity. Changing Patrons combines visual analysis with history and anthropology to propose new interpretations of the art created by  among others  Botticelli  Filippino Lippi  and Raphael. Genuinely interdisciplinary  the book also casts light on broad issues of identity  power relations  and the visual arts in Florence  the cradle of the Renaissance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960411676725,"sku":"ByrdShop_0271023627","price":194.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780271023625.jpg?v=1788286594","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/changing-patrons-social-identity-and-the-visual-arts-in-renaissance-florence-9780271023625","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}