Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts across Europe
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 3/26/2012
EAN 9781107605442, ISBN10: 110760544X
Paperback, 384 pages, 25.1 x 17.5 x 2 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
In this study, Marina Belozerskaya re-establishes the importance of the Burgundian court as a center of art production and patronage in early modern Europe. Beginning with a historiographical and theoretical overview, she offers an analysis of contemporary documents and patterns of patronage, demonstrating that Renaissance tastes were formed through a fusion of international currents and art works in a variety of media. Among the most prestigious were those emanating out of the Burgundian court, which embodied prevailing contemporary values: magnificence in appearance, ceremony and surroundings, chivalry inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity, and power manifested through ingenious ensembles of luxury arts. The potency of this 'Burgundian mode' fostered a pan-European demand for its arts and their creators, with rulers in England, Germany, Spain and Italy itself eagerly acquiring Burgundian art works. This interdisciplinary study of the Burgundian arts provides a new paradigm for further inquiry into the pluralism and cosmopolitanism of the Renaissance.
1. The legacy of Vasari
2. Through fifteenth-century eyes
the Burgundian dukes on the international arena
3. Perceiving value
the hierarchy of the arts and their uses
4. The politics of desire
Burgundian arts across Europe
5. Economics of consumption
art for the masses.
Review of the hardback: 'This book is both original and thought-provoking in its approach to one of the most popular periods in European history.' Burlington Magazine