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Somaesthetic Experience and the Viewer in Medicean Florence : Renaissance Art and Political Persuasion, 1459-1580 / Allie Terry-Fritsch.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 22Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789048544240
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709 23
LOC classification:
  • N6913
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Activating the Renaissance Viewer: Art and Somaesthetic Experience -- 2. Mobilizing Visitors : Political Persuasion and the Somaesthetics of Belonging in the Chapel of the Magi -- 3. Staging Gendered Authority : Donatello’s Judith, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’Medici’s sacra storia, and the Somaesthetics of Justice -- 4. Performing Virtual Pilgrimage : Somaesthetics and Holy Land Devotion at San Vivaldo -- 5. Playing the Printed Piazza : Giovanni de’ Bardi’s Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino and Somaesthetic Discipline in Grand-Ducal Florence -- 6. Epilogue: Renaissance Somaesthetics in a Digital World -- About the Author -- Index
Summary: Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and intimately engaged themselves with works of art and architecture on a daily basis. This book examines how viewers in Medicean Florence were self-consciously cultivated to enhance their sensory appreciation of works of art and creatively self-fashion through somaesthetic experience. Mobilized as a technology for the production of knowledge with and through their bodies, viewers contributed to the essential meaning of Renaissance art and, in the process, bound them to others. By investigating the framework and practice of somaesthetic viewing of works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, Benedetto Buglioni, Giorgio Vasari, and others in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence, the book approaches the viewer as a powerful tool that was used by patrons to shape identity and power in the Renaissance.

Frontmatter -- Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Activating the Renaissance Viewer: Art and Somaesthetic Experience -- 2. Mobilizing Visitors : Political Persuasion and the Somaesthetics of Belonging in the Chapel of the Magi -- 3. Staging Gendered Authority : Donatello’s Judith, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’Medici’s sacra storia, and the Somaesthetics of Justice -- 4. Performing Virtual Pilgrimage : Somaesthetics and Holy Land Devotion at San Vivaldo -- 5. Playing the Printed Piazza : Giovanni de’ Bardi’s Discorso sopra il giuoco del calcio fiorentino and Somaesthetic Discipline in Grand-Ducal Florence -- 6. Epilogue: Renaissance Somaesthetics in a Digital World -- About the Author -- Index

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Viewers in the Middle Ages and Renaissance were encouraged to forge connections between their physical and affective states when they experienced works of art. They believed that their bodies served a critical function in coming to know and make sense of the world around them, and intimately engaged themselves with works of art and architecture on a daily basis. This book examines how viewers in Medicean Florence were self-consciously cultivated to enhance their sensory appreciation of works of art and creatively self-fashion through somaesthetic experience. Mobilized as a technology for the production of knowledge with and through their bodies, viewers contributed to the essential meaning of Renaissance art and, in the process, bound them to others. By investigating the framework and practice of somaesthetic viewing of works by Benozzo Gozzoli, Donatello, Benedetto Buglioni, Giorgio Vasari, and others in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence, the book approaches the viewer as a powerful tool that was used by patrons to shape identity and power in the Renaissance.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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