TY - BOOK AU - Terry-Fritsch,Allie TI - Somaesthetic Experience and the Viewer in Medicean Florence: Renaissance Art and Political Persuasion, 1459-1580 T2 - Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 SN - 9789048544240 AV - N6913 U1 - 709 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Art KW - Italy KW - Florence KW - History KW - 15th century KW - 16th century KW - Renaissance KW - Art and Material Culture KW - Cultural Studies KW - Early Modern Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - Philosophy KW - Politics and Government KW - Sociology and Social History KW - ART / History / Renaissance KW - bisacsh KW - Florentine art KW - Medici patronage KW - Political persuasion KW - Renaissance viewers KW - Somaesthetics N1 - 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; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048544240?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048544240 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048544240/original ER -