Dr. Kristin Triff - Palazzo Orsini di
Monte Giordano
- Event 2009 - Pr.
Kristin Triff's Book to Be Published
- The first
monographic study on the Orsini family palace at Monte
Giordano
- Publication
scheduled for February 2010
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- Patronage and
Public Image in Early Modern Rome:
- The Orsini Palace
at Monte Giordano
- Author: Triff,
Kristin A
- Price: $160.00
- Item Number:
58590
Michael
Shamansky, Bookseller Inc.
- P.O. Box 3904,
Kingston, New York 12402 US
- Phone:
845-331-8519
- Fax:
845-331-0852
- Email:
mshamans@artbooks.com
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- "Although recent studies in early modern
architecture have illuminated the palace culture of the families
associated with Rome's papal court, the complex social and
architectural history of the city's feudal nobility has remained
largely unexamined. As Rome's de facto rulers throughout the
Middle Ages and early Renaissance, ancient baronial families such
as the Orsini established the political and physical contexts
against which emerging curial families positioned themselves from
the fifteenth century onward, and were thus fundamental in shaping
Rome's early modern palace culture. This book on the Orsini family
palace at Monte Giordano is the first monographic study of a major
Roman baronial palace during this period. In addition to being the
primary Roman stronghold of the Orsini, Monte Giordano was the
site of influential architectural and artistic projects during the
early Renaissance. Praised by prominent contemporary writers and
architects including Giovanni Rucellai, Giorgio Vasari, and
Lorenzo Valla, Monte Giordano served as a model for the ideal
palaces discussed in treatises by Filarete and Paolo Cortesi. As
this book demonstrates, it should also be acknowledged as Rome's
earliest example of a Renaissance palace typology. Ultimately,
Monte Giordano's evolution responded to the waning fortunes of
Rome's baronial nobility, as the Orsini cultivated an
intentionally feudal image of power that reacted to the opulent
palaces of the curial families, and to the changing social and
political topography of a city increasingly dominated by the
papacy."
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- Description:
Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2009. 27cm., hardcover, ca. 300pp., 16
color, 150 b&w illus.
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Sommario
- Editus
Ursae