Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transcriptions and Translations

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Families, Neighbors, and Friends

1. Family Self-Fashioning

2. Private Wealth and Public Benefit: The Nasi and Del Pugliese Palaces

3. Family, Church, Community: The Appearance of Power in Santo Spirito

4. Patronage and the Art of Friendship: Piero del Pugliese's Patronage of Filippino Lippi

Part II: The Individual, the Family, and the Church

5. Patronage Rights and Wrongs: Building Identity at Santa Maria a Lecceto

6. Framing Patronage: Beauty and Order at the Church of the Innocenti

7. Differing Visions: Image and Audience in the Florentine Church

Part III: Identity and Change

8. Painted Prayers: Savonarola and the Audience of Images

Conclusions and Questions

Appendix

Nasi Family Tree

Del Pugliese Family Tree

Unpublished Documents

Poems Written About the Portrait of Piero del Pugliese by Filippino Lippi

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Jill Burke is AHRB Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Art History Department, University of Edinburgh. In 2000-2001, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Reviews

"No one writing about Florentine and Italian art history will be able to ignore this elegant and probing book." -F. W. Kent, Director, Monash University at Prato"