The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara
The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara
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The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara examines the transformation of one of Italy's most important city states as engineered by a succession of Este rulers. During the course of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, individual Este princes constructed and embellished palaces and citadels, founded and supported churches and monastic complexes, and encouraged or sponsored major urban projects, including the famous Ercolean Addition, as a means of glorifying their city and defining their own position within it. In tandem with these projects, four public sculptural monuments dedicated to Este princes were also erected or planned for the city. Set into the context of the urban development of Ferrara, the four projects reveal the role that princely and public patronage played in the process of political self-fashioning and promotion in early Renaissance Italy.
- First comprehensive interpretation of a series of public sculptural monuments honouring Alberto, Niccolo III, Borso and Ercole I d'Este
- Examines a city outside the traditional centres of study
- Includes numerous new documents as well as a rereading of those previously published
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'… lucid and deftly argued … Rosenberg's book is an important addition to the literature on Renaissance Ferrara. It is beautifully written, and the author shares with the reader his great sensitivity for the political messages transmitted by public sculpture'. The Art Book
Product details
February 1998Hardback
9780521561396
349 pages
261 × 185 × 26 mm
1.13kg
62 b/w illus.
Unavailable - out of print October 2005
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The early development of Ferrara from its origins to the death of Alberto V D'Este
- 2. The monument to Alberto V D'Este
- 3. The development of Ferrara during the reign of Niccolo III D'Este
- 4. The monument to Niccolo III D'Este
- 5. The development of Ferrara during the reign of Borso D'Este
- 6. The monument to Borso D'Este
- 7. The urban development of Ferrara during the reign of Ercole I D'Este
- 8. The monument to Ercole I D'Este.
