Part I—The Beginning — Sixtus IV
The Sistine Chapel, Dynastic Ambition, and the Cultural Patronage of Sixtus IV.....Andrew C. Blume
Pope Sixtus IV at Assisi: The Promotion of Papal Power.....Jill Elizabeth Blondin
Part II—Ecclesiastics
Piety and Public Consumption: Domenico, Girolamo, and Julius II della Rovere at Santa Maria del Popolo.....Lisa Passaglia Bauman
Avignon to Rome: The Making of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere as a Patron of Architecture.....Henry Dietrich Fernández
Reform and Renewed Ambition: Cardinal Giulio Feltrio della Rovere.....Ian Verstegen
Part III—Signore
Felice della Rovere and the Castello at Palo.....Caroline P. Murphy
The Ecclesiastical Patronage of Isabella Feltria della Rovere: Bricks, Bones, and Brocades.....Maria Ann Conelli
Part IV—The Ducal Experience
Francesco Maria and the Duchy of Urbino, between Rome and Venice.....Ian Verstegen
Duke Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Federico Barocci, and the Taste for Titian at the Court of Urbino.....Jeffrey Fontana
Francesco Maria della Rovere and Federico Barocci: Some Notes on Distinctive Strategies in Patronage and the Position of the Artist at Court.....Stuart Lingo
Ian Verstegen studied art with Rudolf Arnheim at the University of Michigan, which led to studies in experimental psychology at Rutgers University. He received his PhD with Marcia Hall at Temple University. He is currently the Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
“Overall, the book offers a bright palette of historically painted
individual art historical studies, which is indeed a many-sided
(although in no ways exhaustively rendered) picture of the
patronage of the della Rovere.”—Monumenta Germaniae Historica
“It is fascinating to see, through the various branches of one
family, the breadth and diversity of the types of patronage
undertaken.... As such, [the book] does its job well, engaging with
current debates on a number of different levels and further
extending our understanding of the complexities of Renaissance
patronage.”—Renaissance Quarterly
“Art historians look at the della Rovere family as a whole—from
Pope Sixtus IV della Rovere to Francesco Maria II, last Duke of
Urbino—as they faced distinct but not uncommon issues at any given
time during the dynasty's two-century floriat.”—Book News
“The various essays collected in Patronage and Dynasty taken
together chart the ways this family laid claim to a kind of
cultural and enlightened nobility as time went by, carving a niche
for itself through patronage of the arts. The book offers a unique
and thorough study of the patron-artist relationship as well as
insight into how a notable family constituted its identity over
time.”—SirReadaLot.org
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