A Renaissance Architecture of Power : Princely Palaces in the Italian Quattrocento.

Intro -- A Renaissance Architecture of Power: Princely Palaces in the Italian Quattrocento -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Figures -- PART 1: Comparative Issues -- 1: Princes, Towns, Palaces: A Renaissance "Architecture of Power" -- 2: Medieval Vestiges in the Princely Architecture of the 15th Century -- 3: The Princely Palace in 15th-Century Italian Architectural Theory -- 4: Palaces and Palatine Chapels in 15th-Century Italian Dukedoms: Ideas and Experiences -- PART 2: Case Studies -- 5: "Combining the Old and the New": The Princely Residences of the Marquises of Saluzzo in the 15th Century -- 6: The Sforza Castle of Milan (1450-1499) -- 7: Patrician Residences and the Palaces of the Marquis of Mantua (1459-1524) -- 8: The Renewal of Ferrara's Court Palace under Ercole I d'Este (1471-1505) -- 9: Architecture of Power: Imola during the Signoria of Girolamo Riario (1473-1488) -- 10: "Small Mice, Large Palaces": From Urbino to Carpi -- 11: The Medici Palace, Cosimo the Elder, and Michelozzo: A Historiographical Survey -- 12: The Palace of Nicholas v: Continuity and Innovation in the Vatican Palaces -- 13: Alfonso I of Naples and the Art of Building: Castel Nuovo in a European Context -- 14: The Residences of the Kings of Sicily, from Martin of Aragon to Ferdinand the Catholic -- Bibliography -- Index of Manuscripts -- Index of Names -- Index of Places.

Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara... but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a comparative perspective.

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