TY - BOOK AU - Bauman,Lisa Passaglia AU - Blondin,Jill Elizabeth AU - Blume,Andrew C. AU - Conelli,Maria Ann AU - Fernández,Henry Dietrich AU - Fontana,Jeffrey AU - Lingo,Stuart AU - Murphy,Caroline P. AU - Verstegen,Ian AU - Verstegen,Ian F. TI - Patronage and Dynasty: The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy T2 - Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies SN - 9780271091105 AV - DG463.8.D45 P38 2007eb U1 - 945/.060922 22 PY - 2021///] CY - University Park, PA : PB - Penn State University Press, KW - Art, Renaissance KW - Italy KW - Nobility KW - History KW - 15th century KW - 16th century KW - Papacy KW - 1447-1565 KW - ART / History / Renaissance KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART I THE BEGINNING -SIXTUS IV --; The Sistine Chapel, Dynastic Ambition, and the Cultural Patronage of Sixtus IV --; Pope Sixtus IV at Assisi: --; PART II ECCLESIASTICS --; Piety and Public Consumption: --; Avignon to Rome: --; Reform and Renewed Ambition: --; PART III SIGNORE --; Felice della Rovere and the Castello at Palo --; The Ecclesiastical Patronage of Isabella Feltria della Rovere: --; PART IV THE DUCAL EXPERIENCE --; Francesco Maria and the Duchy of Urbino, between Rome and Venice --; Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Federico Barocci, and the Taste for Titian at the Court of Urbino --; Francesco Maria della Rovere and Federico Barocci: --; Appendix-della Rovere Family Tree --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access N2 - This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the lens of one of early modern Italy's most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family's ascent into Italian nobility. The della Rovere was a family of popes, cardinals, and powerful dukes who financed some of the world's best-known and greatest artwork. The essays explore the issue of identity and its maintenance, of carving a permanent spot for a family name in a rapidly changing atmosphere.Although these studies depart from art patronage, they uncover how the popes, cardinals, dukes, and signore of the della Rovere family constituted their identity. Originally a nouveau-riche creation of papal nepotism, the della Rovere first populated the ranks of cardinals under the powerful popes Sixtus IV and Julius II. Within the framework of later papal relations, the family negotiated its position within the economy of Italian nobles UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271091105?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271091105 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780271091105.jpg ER -