Patrons
Peter Burke, 15 October 1987
Patronage, Art and Society in Renaissance Italy
edited by F.W. Kent and Patricia Simons.
Oxford/Humanities Research Centre, 331 pp., £35, June 1987,0 19 821978 4 Show More
edited by F.W. Kent and Patricia Simons.
Oxford/Humanities Research Centre, 331 pp., £35, June 1987,
Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance City
by Charles Mack.
Cornell, 250 pp., $43.95, June 1987,9780801416996 Show More
by Charles Mack.
Cornell, 250 pp., $43.95, June 1987,
Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian and the Franciscans
by Rona Goffen.
Yale, 285 pp., £30, July 1986,0 300 03455 5 Show More
by Rona Goffen.
Yale, 285 pp., £30, July 1986,
Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance
by Margaret King.
Princeton, 524 pp., £42.90, April 1986,0 691 05465 7 Show More
by Margaret King.
Princeton, 524 pp., £42.90, April 1986,
The Venetian Patriciate: Reality versus Myth
by Donald Queller.
Illinois, 386 pp., $29.95, September 1986,0 252 01144 9 Show More
by Donald Queller.
Illinois, 386 pp., $29.95, September 1986,
Tradesman and Traders: The World of the Guilds in Venice and Europe, c.1250-c.1650
by Richard MacKenney.
Croom Helm, 289 pp., £35, January 1987,0 7099 1763 5 Show More
by Richard MacKenney.
Croom Helm, 289 pp., £35, January 1987,
Florence, Rome and the Origins of the Renaissance
by George Holmes.
Oxford, 273 pp., £25, November 1986,0 19 822576 8 Show More
by George Holmes.
Oxford, 273 pp., £25, November 1986,
From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in 15th and 6th-Century Europe
by Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine.
Duckworth, 224 pp., £29.95, January 1987,0 7156 2100 9 Show More
by Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine.
Duckworth, 224 pp., £29.95, January 1987,
Renaissance and Revolt: Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France
by J.H.M. Salmon.
Cambridge, 306 pp., £30, June 1987,0 521 32769 5 Show More
by J.H.M. Salmon.
Cambridge, 306 pp., £30, June 1987,
“... relationship shapes the very documents which purport to describe it. Unlike Margaret King, Donald Queller does not hesitate for a moment between the rival interpretations of the Venetian patriciate. According to him, the open book held by the winged lion of St Mark ‘is really a palimpsest’. ‘Beneath the official inscription, Pax tibi ... ”
