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Description: Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence
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Acciaiuoli, Agnolo 11–12
Adimari family: taxable wealth 70
Agli family: Medici and 245–6
Agli, Barnaba degli 200–1, 245, 355
Agli, Domenico di Barnaba degli 246
Agli, Francesco di Jacopo degli: Pucci marriage and 245
Agli, Jacopo di Barnaba degli: Medici marriage and 245
Agli, Pellegrino di Jacopo degli 245
Agnolo di Taddeo 161–2
Alberti family 19–20; arms 20; status 77
buildings and endowments:
Oratory of Santa Caterina, Antella 19, 32 , 33, 313
’del Paradiso’, monastery dedicated to Saint Bridget of Sweden 19, 313
San Miniato al Monte, Sacristy 19, 20
Santa Croce, choir and tombs 19
Santa Maria degli Angeli, Oratory dedicated to San Gherardo 19
Alberti, Antonio di Niccolò 19
Alberti, Benedetto di Nerozzo di Alberto degli 19, 20, 313
Alberti, Bernardo di Antonio di Ricciardo 20
Alberti, Bernardo di Benedetto 19
Alberti, Gherardo di Benedetto 19
Alberti, Giannozzo 20, 313
Alberti, Leon Battista 19–21, 313; Cicero and 21; Dante and 159; ecclesiastical endowments 211; emblem (winged eye) and arms 20, 20, 93; imitation of nature 151; Leonardo da Vinci and 95–6; life and career 20–1, 313; perspectiva and 93–6, 150–2; perspective and 95–6, 150–2, 229; readers of 49; Xenophon and 21
architecture:
Rucellai Palace and Loggia 319, 23
San Pancrazio, Holy Sepulcher Shrine 21–3, 23
Santa Maria Novella façade 23, 319
sculpture: Self-portrait (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 94
writings:
Amorous History (Istorietta Amorosa) (attributed) 268
On the Family (I Libri della famiglia) 3–4, 19–24, 313
On Painting (Della pittura) 89, 95–6, 131, 139, 343–4; dedications in 47, 343; imitation of nature 151; perspective 95–6, 150, 229, 329
Alberti, Lionardo 19
Alberti, Lorenzo 20–1
Albertus Magnus 150
Albizzi family: status 77; taxable wealth 70
Albizzi, Francesco di Alamanno degli: Medici, Gianozzo Manetti and 245
Albizzi, Giovanna degli (wife of Lorenzo di Giovanni Tornabuoni) 240, 241, 241
Albizzi, Rinaldo degli 25, 118; Botticelli’s defamatory image of 118–19
Alexander VI, Pope (Rodrigo Borgia): Pucci–Farnese interests and 248–9
Alhazen: Ghiberti and 344; intromission theory, Dante and 150
writing: De aspectibus 96, 328–9
Alighieri: see Dante
all’antica style 17, 43–5 passim, 263, 265–7; Fra Angelico and 204; Botticelli and 263; Brunelleschi and 43–7, 320; Donatello and 47–8, 320; Ghiberti and 43–7, 55, 156; Guelf Party and 47–8; Filippino Lippi and 225; Masaccio and 47–9; Medici and 168, 229; Neri di Bicci and 52; Pollaiuolo and 171–2
alliances xvi–xix, 8, 65, 77–8, chapter 6 passim, 350–3
altarpieces chapter 6 passim, 349–58; Annunciation, subject of 179, 196–216, 197 9, 208, 210, 214 16, 353; commission and design 350–3; Coronation, subject of 179, 202–3, 202, 203, 211; donor portraits and 218–19; framing devices 183–5, 205, 351–2; function of 187, 214–16; sermons and 189–90, 348; sacra conversazione 188–92, 226, 350–2; Virgin and Child, subject of 179
Altoviti, Roberto di Giovanni 60
Ambrose, Saint 196
Anastagi, Guido degli: Boccaccio’s Decameron 233, 259
Andrea Pisano 43
sculpture: Baptism of Christ (South Door, Baptistery, Florence) 43, 44
Andrea del Sarto: Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and John the Evangelist (“Madonna of the Harpies”) (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 227
Angelico, Fra 354–5; Annunciation of the Virgin (subject of) 353; Archbishop Antoninus and 203; artifice and 185–9, 204–6; as monastic artist 66, 116, 185–9, 203, 206, 355; demeanor and 116; San Domenico and 355; Donatello and 205; gaze and gesture in 133, 185; perspective and 185–9, 205; training as artist and preacher 203
paintings:
Adoration of the Magi (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 29
Annunciation (Museo del Prado, Madrid) 199, 200–6, 207, 211, 354–5
Christ in Glory with Saints and Dominican Blessed (predella for San Domenico altarpiece) (National Gallery, London) 200, 201
Coronation of the Virgin (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 112, 113, 202, 202, 206
Entombment (predella from San Marco altarpiece) (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) 187, 187
Mocking of Christ (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 206, 207
Saint Dominic Praying before the Crucifix (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 66–7, 66
Saint Dominic with the Crucifix (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 66–7, 66
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Cosmas and Damian, Lawrence, John the Evangelist, Mark, Dominic, Francis and Peter Martyr (“San Marco altarpiece”) (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 132 , 133, 182, 185–9, 186, 187, 206, 354
Virgin and Child with Saints Thomas Aquinas, Barnabas, Dominic and Peter Martyr (San Domenico, Fiesole) 200–1, 200
Annunciation, subject of: see altarpieces and feasts
Antella, Oratory of Santa Caterina 19, 33, 313
antiquities, collecting 16, 165–9; delight and 172–3; Medici and 16, 165–9, 318, 343; Sassetti and 247
Antoninus, Saint and Archbishop (Antonino Pierozzi) 178–9, 348; as Prior of San Domenico 203, 348; delight and 203, 298n.36; Fra Angelico and 203; instruction on preaching 196
writing: Summa Theologica 38, 96, 178–9, 182, 203
Antonio di Neri di Bicci: apprenticeship of 75
Apelles 160; Filippino Lippi as the new 221–2; Ghiberti on 152–3; Giotto as the new 162–3, 341; Pliny on Protogenes and 152
Apollonio di Giovanni 21–2, 364
Aquinas, Saint Thomas: Dante, contemplation and vision and 177–9; Giovanni Dominici and 196; justification of images 178–9; perspectiva and 96
writings:
Commentary on Aristotle’s De Anima 96, 136, 150
De causis 291n.64
Scriptum super Sententiis 136
Summa Theologiae 177
Aragazzi, Bartolomeo: Montepulciano and tomb 36
Aristotle: 17, 96, 136, 138, 150, 330; Bruni and 34, 43; Giovanni Morelli and 138; on delight 159–60; on wealth 36, 38; sight and senses 96, 150
writings:
On the Soul (De Anima) 96, 150, 159, 330
On the Senses (De sensu et sensato) Dante and 150
Metaphysics 159–60
Nicomachean Ethics 36, 38; Thomas Aquinas and 136
arms and imprese: Alberti family 20, 20 , 93; Benci family 207; Bini family 229, 257,253,260; Gonzaga family 7–8; Martelli family 109, 109 ; Medici family 228 , 229, 237, 248, 261; Nerli family 220; Pucci family 229, 237, 260; Rucellai family 23, 23 ; Sassetti family 247–8; Strozzi family 26, 27, 28, 29
art market 327
arte xii, 184
arti: see guilds
artifice and skill xii–xiii, xvi, 93, 95, 133, 135–46, chapter 6 passim; Alberti and 139; Fra Angelico and 185–9, 204–6; Andrea del Castagno and 139; Dante and 135–7, 177–95; Donatello and 59–60, 84–5, 139; Ghiberti and 153–6; Landino and 95, 136–7; Fra Filippo Lippi and 139, 209–15; Masaccio and 47–9, 139; pictorial order and xvi, 3–4, 185, 229, 232, 234–8, 259–61
artists’ practice: chapter 3 passim, 316 , 320–2, 325–7; contracts 195; Neri di Bicci and 73–5; see also workshop practice
artists’ status 63–89 passim, 96, 326; Donatello and 72, 78, 83–9; guild membership and 63–5, 74–8; intellect of artists 152–3; intellectual status of art, according to Alberti 152; Landino on Giotto and 136–7; Palmieri, Cicero and 49
Assisi: Giotto and 120
churches:
Basilica of Saint Francis, Upper Church 120, 123
Santa Maria Porziuncula 120–3
painting: attributed to Giotto school, Verification of the Stigmata of Saint Francis 122
Assisi, Saint Francis of 120–9
Augustine, Saint 196, 218, 347; on delight 196, 340
writing: On the Literal Meaning of Genesis (De genesi ad litteram) 177
authority xv, 136, 161–4; Ermolao Barbaro and 165; Bruni and 161; Cennini and 161–2; Dante and 136, 161; Giotto and 136, 161–4; Landino and 136, 161–4; Lorenzo de Medici and 165–9; Medici family and 165–9; Antonio Pollaiuolo and 170–2; Polycleitus and 136
Bacon, Roger: Dante and 150; Ghiberti and 344
writing: Perspectiva 96, 150, 158
Baldini, Baccio: Landino’s edition of Dante’s Divina commedia and 339
engravings, after Botticelli (attributed): Inferno, Canto I 257, 257 ; Inferno, Canto V, The Punishment of Lust 257–8, 258
Baldovinetti, Alesso: Bongianni Gianfigliazzi and 272–3n.8; Dante and 337
Balìa: Piero Bini and 250; Antonio Pucci and 244, 250
Banco family 63, 65
Banco, Antonio di 63, 65
Banco, Giovanni di 63, 65
Banco, Nanni di 63, 65; artisan family lineages 326; guild politics and 63, 65
sculpture: I Quattro Santi Coronati (Orsanmichele, Florence) 64, 65
Barbadori, Niccolò di Messer Donato: Brunelleschi, Santa Felicita and 48
Barbadori Chapel: see Santo Spirito
Barbaro, Ermolao: visit to Medici Palace and 165
Barbaro, Francesco: De Re Uxoria Liber 116
Barberino, Luigi Lotti da 274n.35
Bardi Chapels: see Santa Croce and Santo Spirito
Bardi, Donato di Niccolò di Betti Bardi: see Donatello
Bardi, Giovanni dei 190, 220, 353–4
Bardi, Leonora de’, in the Amorous History 268–9, 268
Baron, Hans: Bruni and 315; civic humanism and 315
writings:
In Search of Florentine Civic Humanism 315
The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance 315
Baroncelli, Bernardo Bandini 118
Leonardo da Vinci, Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli Shown Hanged 118, 119
Bartolomeo di Giovanni: attribution of some work to, in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 359
Baxandall, Michael xv
writings:
Giotto and the Orators 342–3
Painting and Experience in Fiteenth Century Italy 97–8, 103, 105, 331, 333
Beatrice: Dante and 144, 147, 157, 177
Becchi, Gentile 264, 264
Belcari, Feo: perspectiva and 96
Benci, Giovanni d’Amerigo 70, 206–7, 356
Benci, Jacopo di Antonio dei 76
Bene, Francesco del Jacopo del 364
Bene, Giovanni d’Amerigo del 364
Benedetto da Maiano: ownership of Dante’s Divina commedia 140
sculpture: Virgin and Child Tabernacle (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) 193, 193
woodworking: Sala dei Gigli doors (Francione, Giuliano da Maiano and) 141, 337
Benivieni, Antonio: Piero del Tovaglia and 7
Benvenuto da Imola: citing Aristotle and Pliny 136
writing: Comentum on Dante 338, 341
Bertoldo da Giovanni 166, 172, 345; ignudi and 172; virility and violence in 172
sculpture: Battle (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence), 166, 167, 172, 172
Biagio d’Antonio: Christ crowned with Thorns (Berenson Collection, Villa I Tatti, Florence) 194, 195
Bicci di Lorenzo 52, 55, 320–21, 355; artistic lineage 65
painting: Virgin and Child with Donor, Simone da Spicchio (Museo della Collegiata, Empoli) 52, 53
Bini family xvi, 248; arms, in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 229, 253, 260
Bini, Francesco: marriage to Smeralda de’ Medici 248
Bini, Lucrezia di Piero di Giovanni di Jacopo 359; friendship with Geronima and Giulia Farnese 248–9; marriage to Giannozzo di Antonio Pucci chapter 7 passim; Lorenzo de’ Medici as marriage broker 247; representation of, in Wedding Feast 254 , 255
Bini, Piero di Giovanni di Jacopo: as member of the Balìa 250; interests in Pisa 248; Neri di Gino Capponi and 248; possible portrait of in Wedding Feast 261, 261
birth 9, 309; birth trays 14–15, 15 , 333
Bisticci, Vespasiano da: Ghiberti on 168–9
writings:
Life of Cosimo de’ Medici 86, 89
Life of Niccolò Niccoli 168
Black Death 4–5, 348
Boccaccio chapter 7 passim; Botticelli and 234–8, 360–2; Dante and 137; Giotto and 341–2; Gianozzo Manetti and 137, 362; Lorenzo de’ Medici and 263, 361; Petrarch and 338; project for Duomo monument to 336; vernacular and 263
writings:
Amorosa Visione 362
Commentary on The Divine Comedy 184
Decameron chapter 7 passim; and Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 229–35, 255, 263, 360–2
Ninfale fiesolano 362
Teseida 362
Trattatello in laude de Dante 336
Boethius: Giovanni Morelli and 138
Bonaiuto di Giovanni 320
Bonaventure, Saint 120, 178–9, 182
writings:
Life of Saint Francis (Legenda) 120
Meditations on the Life of Christ (Meditaciones des Passione Christi) (attributed to) 179, 182
Borromei, Giovanni 81–2
Borsieri, Giovanni 60
Botticelli, Sandro 72–3, 141–6, 337, 339–40, 351, 360–2; perspective and 141–6, 229, 232
illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy 141–6, 257, 259, 339–40, 360–2; see also Baccio Baldini and 257 , 258
Inferno, Canto XIX, Corruption among the Clergy: Punishment of Simonists (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 142
Inferno, Canto XXII, Eighth Circle, Punishment of the Corrupt (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 143
Inferno, Canto XXIX, The Punishment of Falsifiers (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 258
Paradiso, Canto I, Ascent to the Heaven of Fire (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 143
Paradiso, Canto X, Ascent to the Fourth Planetary Sphere (Heaven of the Sun) (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 144
Purgatorio, Canto X, Punishment of the Proud (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 135, 144, 145
Purgatorio, Canto XIX, Ascent to the Fifth Terrace (Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin) 142
drawing:
Portrait of Dante 141, 337
paintings:
Annunciation for the Ospedale of San Martino della Scala (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 299n.41
Calumny of Apelles (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 266
Pazzi Conspirator Portraits (lost) 118–19
Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 262, 262
Primavera (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 105, 106, 112, 158
Saint Augustine in his Study (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 194, 194
Story of Nastagio degli Onesti xvi, chapter 7 passim, 360–2; all’antica style and 263; Boccaccio and 229–38, 360–2; civility and 259; Dante’s Divine Comedy, Canto I and 257–8; the pictorial vernacular and 263; portraits and heraldry in 235; Pucci history in 229, 235–8
Nastagio in the Pine Forest of Ravenna (Museo del Prado, Madrid) 230, 232, 256
Nastagio witnesses the Punishment of Guido degli Anastagi and his Beloved (Museo del Prado, Madrid) 230 , 233
Banquet in the Pine Forest (Museo del Prado, Madrid) 231 , 234
Wedding Feast (Private Collection) 228 , 231 , 235, 237, 251, 252, 253, 254, 259, 260, 264, 265, 267, 268, 270
Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist (“Bardi altarpiece”) (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 190, 221 , 358
Botticini, Francesco: Assumption of the Virgin (National Gallery, London) 41–2, 42 , 314
Bracciolini, Poggio: Bruni and 35; book-hunting passions of 343; collection of antiquities 166, 168; Donatello and 168
writing: Oratio fune bris in obitu Leonardi Arretini 35
Brancacci Chapel: see Santa Maria del Carmine
Brancacci family 98, 100, 334
Brancacci, Felice di Michele 47
Brancacci, Pietro di Piuvichese 100
Brunelleschi, Filippo 43–8, 72, 116, 269, 321, 357; in Alberti’s dedication of Della pittura 47, 343; biography of 152; development of the altarpiece and unified field 351; Donatello and 43; Lorenzo Ghiberti and 43; Masaccio and 47–8; Niccolò Niccoli and 168; perspective and 93, 95, 151–2, 329; social status 78
architecture:
Ospedale degli Innocenti (arcade) 47–8, 50
design for Guelf Party hall 316, 320
San Lorenzo 269
Santo Spirito 269
sculpture: Baptistery Doors
competition panel, Sacrifice of Isaac (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 43, 44
Bruni, Donato 35
Bruni, Leonardo 314; Aristotle and 36, 43, 291n.66; Baptistery Doors and 156; Cicero and 36, 43, 156; civic humanism and 315; Dante and 336; expenditure and 34–42; Guelf Party and 47; funeral and tomb 35–7, 37; life of 34–6; Gianozzo Manetti and 35; Cosimo de’ Medici and 34–5; readers of 49; Palla Strozzi and 34–5; the study of literature 43, 161; wealth and 34–42
writings:
Economics (De Economica) 34–8, 40, 314
The History of the Florentine People (Historiae Florentini populi) 43
Epistolarum 34, 36
The Lives of Dante and Petrach (Le vite di Dante e del Petrarca) 140, 336
Panegyric of Florence (Laudatio florentinae urbis) 307
Study of Literature (De Studiis et litteris) 161
Buondelmonti, Ippolito, in the Amorous History 268–9, 268
Buti, Francesco da: Commentary (Commento) on Dante 135–6, 160, 341
Cafaggiolo, Medici Villa 72
Captain of the People 114
Camaldolite Order 98; Santa Maria degli Angeli 19; Lorenzo Monaco 66–8, 327
Cambi, Giovanni di Bernardo: plot to restore Medici 269
Capponi family 317; marriage into Pucci family 246; Sassetti family links 248
Capponi, Girolamo di Niccolò: marriage to Elena Pucci 246
Capponi, Nanna di Neri (wife of Tanai di Francesco di Nerli): donor portrait in Filippino Lippi Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist, Saint Martin of Tours, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the Donors, Tanai dei Nerli and his Wife Nanna di Neri Capponi (“Nerli altarpiece”) (Santo Spirito, Florence) 217, 218
Capponi, Neri di Gino 246; as business partner of Piero Bini 248; as marriage broker 79, 81; Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 79; marriage to Violante Sassetti 248
Capponi, Neri di Gino di Neri 79
Capponi, Niccolò: Dei’s Cronica and 248; wealth and 246
Captain of the People 114, 118
Carafa, Cardinal Oliviero 221
Carmelite Order: friars 100, 104; Fra Filippo Lippi 66–8, 327; Masaccio 47; Antonia di Paolo Uccello 66
Carmine, neighborhood of 98
Castagno, Andrea del 334; as 'Andrea degli Impiccati’ 118; gender and vision 103–4; Landino’s Comento and 139
paintings:
Last Supper (Refectory, Sant’ Apollonia, Florence) 102, 103–4, 334
The Resurrection, the Crucifixion, the Entombment (Refectory, Sant’Apollonia, Florence) 104, 104
Saint Jerome and the Trinity and Saints Paula and (?)Eustochium (Corboli chapel, Santissima Annunziata, Florence) 103, 103
Castellani, Alessandra di messer Michele di Vanni 35
Castellani, Francesco di Matteo 60
writing: Ricordanze 308
Catasto 13–14, 69–77, 79–82
Cavalca, Domenico: Specchio della Croce 297n.17
Cavalcanti family: taxable wealth and 70
Cennini, Cennino: Giotto and artistic training 161–2
writing: Libro dell’arte 161–2
Certaldo, Paolo da: Libro di Buoni Costumi 177
Chellini, Giovanni: see Giovanni di maestro Antonio
Chimenti di Domenico 356
chronicle writing: Leonardo Bruni and 307; Goro Dati and 307; Benedetto Dei and 3, 5, 114, 307; Marco Parenti and 114; Benedetto Varchi and x–xi; Giovanni Villani and x
Chrysoloras, Manuel 43
Cicero 196; Bruni and 43, 156; on delight 160; expenditure and 36; memory and vision 150; Giovanni Morelli and 138; on oratory 343; Palmieri and 41, 43, 49; rhetoric and 43–57; Giovanni Rucellai and 23
writings:
De partitione oratoria 293n.87
On Moral Duties (De Officiis) 21, 23, 265
The Orator (De oratore) 160–1
Pro Cluentio, 278n.44
Ciompi revolt 114
Cione, Andrea di: see Orcagna
Cione, Jacopo di 29–31, 52
painting (attributed): Coronation of the Virgin (National Gallery, London) 30–1, 31
Cione, Nardo di 29–31
paintings:
Last Judgment (Strozzi Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence) 57
Trinity (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence) 52
civility: Hans Baron and 315; civic pride and 40–2, 114; civic order 3–4, 17; literature and teaching 21; Nastagio degli Onesti panels and 235–7, 259–61; Palmieri and 38–42, 314
Clairvaulx, Bernard of: Dante, contemplation and vision and 177
class 334–8; social definition and 328; structure, of Florence 316–17; visual culture and 96–102; see also Masaccio, Masolino
cloth and dress 25, 29–31, 106–12, 333; Botticelli and 106, 112; Jacopo di Cione (shop of) and 30–1, 31 ; civic traditions and 109–12; demeanor and 333; Gentile da Fabriano and 25, 29–31; Ghirlandaio and 109, 109 ; Fra Filippo Lippi and 108, 108, 113, 209, 211; Antonio del Pollaiuolo and 108, 108 ; sumptuary laws and 31; Verrocchio and 112
compagnie 69, 71
Condivi, Ascanio: Life of Michelangelo (Vita di Michelangelo) 346
confraternities 41, 180; Medici and 29
Gesù 8
Saint Luke 71
Saint Sebastian 216
San Frediano (the Brucciata) 22, 41
Santa Maria della Croce al Tempio 271
connoisseurship 16–17, 165–73; Baxandall and 342–3; Medici sculpture garden and 343
Coronation, subject of: see altarpieces and feasts
Corsi-Horne, interior of palace 310
Corsi, Nera 126 , 129
Council of Trent: marriage decrees of 242
court systems 114–18; justice 263–7; punishment 117–19, 331–3; witnessing 114–16, 120, 123, 128–31, 331–3
Credi, Lorenzo di 355
Cronaca, II: model for Strozzi Palace 13
Daddi, Bernardo: Virgin and Child (Villa I Tatti, Florence) 57
dance: 105, 107, 333; Baxandall and 105; Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Venus, comparison with Botticelli’s Primavera (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 105
Dante Alighieri 3, chapter 5 passim, 336–41; Alberti and 159; Aristotle and 150, 160; Beatrice and 144, 147, 157, 177; beholder’s gaze and 141–4, 147–8; 177–8, 194–5; Botticelli and 141–6; Botticelli, Boccaccio and 257, 259; delight and 136–7, 157–61, 177–8, 194–5; Duomo monument project 336; Ghirlandaio and 125, 128–9; Giotto and 148, 161–4; imitation of nature and 135–7; Landino on 159–61; lectures on Divine Comedy 137; love, beauty and the dolce stil nuovo 157–9; Gianozzo Manetti and 137–8; Giovanni Morelli and 138; perspectiva and 135–7, 148–56, 177–9, 194–5; portrait drawing of, by Botticelli 141, 337; readers of 137–41, 339; the antique and 136–7; the vernacular and 138–9
writings:
Convivio 138, 156, 160–1
Divine Comedy (La Divina commedia) 139, 140, 177–9, 184, 194–5
Purgatorio xv, 135, 142, 157, 159, 161, 169
Inferno 118, 140, 157
Paradiso 125, 128, 147, 178
Rime 140
Vita Nuova 140, 157
Dati, Gregorio (Goro), diary of xvi
writing: Florentine History (Istoria di Firenze) 307
Datini, Marco 38, 140
Davanzati, Mariotto: Neri di Bicci and 74
Davanzati, Niccolò di Roberto: Mariotto di Nardo Trinity with Saints Anthony Abbot, Michael, Francis and Julian (Santa Trinità, Florence) 50, 52, 322
death 9–10, 181–3, 314; see also funerals and tomb sculpture
Dei, Benedetto 3, 5, 114
writings:
La Cronica 3, 307
list of great lineages and wealthiest families (chasati) 248
Dei family 65
delight (delectatio) 16–17, 136–7, 158–73, 194–6; Fra Angelico and 202–6; Antoninus and 203, 298n.36; Thomas Aquinas and 196; Aristotle on 159–60; artifice and 213–14; Augustine on canonical pairing of instruction and delight 196, 340; Cicero on 160–1; connoisseurship and 165–73; Dante and 136–7, 157–61, 177–8, 194–5; devotional art and 194–5, 203–4; Giovanni Dominici and 180, 194; Francesco da Buti on 160; Landino on 159–61; Leonardo da Vinci and 160; Fra Filippo Lippi and 213–14; Petrarch, delight in the arts 165; preaching and 195–6, 203–4; principles of 136–7, 146, 158–61, 194–6; rhetoric and 160–1; Savonarola and 194–5, 298n.36; texts on 159–61
Delli, Dello: Vasari’s Life of x
demeanor 333; devotion and 182–3; Fra Angelico and 116; Francesco Barbaro and 116; Palmieri and 116–17; Savonarola and 116–17
Desiderio da Settignano: Infant Christ and Young Saint John the Baptist (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 194, 194
devotional images: chapter 6 passim; commission and design of 349–53; delight and 195; domestic devotional works 193–5, 349–50, 352–3; literature on 349–53; types of 189–95, 351–3; Crucifixion panels 181–3; Savonarola and 180, 194–6; sermons and 189–92; viewing of chapter 6 passim; vision and Dante 141–4, 177–9; see also altarpieces
Diacceto, Francesco da: teacher of Giannozzo Pucci 264
Diestisalvi Nerone 11–12
Diomedes 168
Domenico da Prato 285n.11
Domenico di Michelino: Dante and 337
Domenico Veneziano 187, 353
painting: Virgin and Child with Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Zenobius and Lucy (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 190, 191
domestic goods 9, 14–16, 20, 238; birth trays 14–15, 333; consumption and luxury goods 308–10; devotional works 193–5; in modest inventories 180; marriage chests and objects 333, 359, 364–5; panelling (spalliere) 229; sumptuary legislation and 9
Dominican Order 198–203; Fra Angelico and 66, 116, 185–9, 206; Giovanni Dominici and 189–94; Humbert of Romans 189; ideals 327; Observants and 188, 198; Savonarola and 116–17; sermon types 203; vision and belief chapter 6 passim
Dominici, Giovanni 180, 189–94, 196, 205, 348
Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betti Bardi) chapter 3 passim, 116; Alberti citing 47; all’antica style 47–8; Fra Angelico and 205; artifice of 59–60, 84, 86, 139; as bachelor artist 72; Poggio Bracciolini and 168; career 327; Dante and 341; de’ Bardi family surname 76; Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 59–62, 78–89; Guelf Party 47–8, 316, 320; influence on Masaccio 47–8; Landino and 95, 139; lineage 65; Martelli arms and 109, 109 ; Medici family and 72; Cosimo de’ Medici and xix, 50, 86, 89; Michelozzo and 70; Niccolò Niccoli and 168; Buonaccorso Pitti, influence of, on career 321; reputation and xiv, 61, 83, 323–4; social status and 72, 78, 83–9; space and perspective 152, 320, 329; taxable wealth and 70; Verrocchio and 345
sculpture:
Ascension of Christ (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) 152, 153
Annunciation (Santa Croce, Florence) 139, 139
David (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 133, 133
Dovizia (lost) 117
Feast of Herod (Baptistery, Siena) 84, 84
God the Father (Orsanmichele, Florence) 205, 205
Martelli arms (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 109, 109
Martyrs Door (Old Sacristy, San Lorenzo, Florence) vi, 87
Saint George (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 49, 110, 110
Saint John the Evangelist (Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, Florence) 48
Saint Louis (Orsanmichele, Florence) 46 , 320
base of the niche for Saint Louis (Orsanmichele, Florence) 86
Saint Mark (Orsanmichele, Florence) 84, 85
Saint Mary Magdalene (Museo dell’ Opera del Duomo, Florence) 138, 139
Virgin and Child with Angels (“Chellini Tondo”) (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) xiv, 58 , 59–62, 78–9, 58, 323
dowries 7, 38–9, 243–4, 246–9, 28m.26, 362–4
drawing (disegno) 170–2
dress: see cloth
Euclid: extramission theory and 150
Eugene IV, Pope (Gabriello Condulmaro) 21, 55, 320; as collector of antiquities
expenditure xiv, chapter 2 passim, 308–9; Bruni and 34–42; Cicero and 36; ethics of 308–9; honorable xiv; justification of 20–4; magnificence and 25–9; Medici and 25; necessary and unnecessary 6–13, 21–36; Strozzi and 25–9; see also wealth
fame 332; see also reputation
Farnese family 248–9; Pucci-Farnese alliance 248–9
Farnese, Geronima di Pierluigi: brother made cardinal 248; marriage to Puccio di Antonio Pucci 248–9
Farnese, Giulia di Pierluigi 249; correspondence with Lucrezia Bini and Giannozzo Pucci 249; Pucci in-laws and 249
Farnese, Alessandro 248
feast days, iconography and liturgy 189; All Saints 192; Annunciation 196–214 passim; Assumption 202; Coronation 202; Epiphany 29; Virgin’s Birth 242
Ficino, Marsilio 264, 264
Fieschi, Bianca di Carlo 20
Fiesole: stonemasons and carvers 65
churches and convents:
San Clemente 10
San Domenico: see Fra Angelico
San Michele alla Doccia: see Mariotto di Nardo
Filarete: Treatise on Architecture (Trattato di Architettura) 16–17
Filelfo, Francesco: Medici and 79, 285n.11, 325
Filippo di Cristofano: tomb of Bartolomeo Valori (after a design by Lorenzo Ghiberti) (Santa Croce, Florence) 55, 56
Finiguerra, Maso 339
Florence: 3, 5
Archivio di Stato xi
Baptistery 5, 41, 43, 45, 55, 75, 94–5
Annunciation mosaic 196–7, 197
Baptistery Doors competition, Brunelleschi and Lorenzo Ghiberti: Sacrifice of Isaac panels (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 43, 44, 45
East Doors (Lorenzo Ghiberti) 153–6, 213; Leonardo Bruni and 156
Creation 169, 169
Portrait of Vittorio Ghiberti 74
Self-portrait 74
Story of Abraham 154, 155
Story of Isaac 154, 155
Story of Joseph 154, 155, 212
North Doors (Lorenzo Ghiberti) 55, 154
Annunciation 197, 197
Flagellation 154
Temptation of Christ 54
South Door (Andrea Pisano) Baptism of Christ 43, 44
churches and convents
Duomo (Santa Maria del Fiore) 41, 137; consecration by Pope Eugene IV 55, 320; feast days and 196; murals in 320; project to erect monuments to poets 336
Le Murate 206–14
Fra Filippo Lippi, Annunciation (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) 206–14, 208, 212, 213
Ognissanti 197
Annunciation mural 197, 198
Orsanmichele 5, 45, 47, 63, 65, 316
Nanni di Banco, / Quattro Santi Coronati 64, 65
Donatello, base of the niche for Saint Louis 86
Donatello God the Father 205, 205
Donatello, Saint George (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 49, 110, 110
Donatello, Saint Mark85,205
Donatello, Saint Louis 46, 320
San Benedetto fuori della Porta a Pinti
Lorenzo Monaco, Coronation of the Virgin (National Gallery, London) 54 , 67, 67
del Paradiso’, monastery dedicated to Saint Bridget of Sweden 19
San Donato a Scopeto 225–6
San Felice in Piazza 22, 196
San Frediano 22, 41
San Lorenzo 269
Donatello, Martyrs Doors (Old Sacristy) 87
Fra Filippo Lippi Annunciation 209, 210
San Marco: Cosimo de’ Medici and 29; Observant Dominicans and 188
Fra Angelico Adoration of the Magi (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 29, 29
Mocking of Christ (Cell 7) (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 206, 207
Fra Angelico Virgin and Child with Saints (“San Marco altarpiece”) (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 132, 133, 182, 185–9, 186, 206, 354
Fra Angelico Saint Dominic with the Crucifix (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 66
Fra Angelico Saint Dominic Praying before the Crucifix (Cell 17) (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 66
San Michele Visdomini: church 80; parish 83
San Miniato al Monte 19; Alberti patronage and 19–20
San Pancrazio 21–3
Holy Sepulcher Shrine 23, 23, 319
San Pier Maggiore: Matteo Palmieri chapel 41–2
Francesco Botticini, Assumption of the Virgin (National Gallery, London) 41–2, 42
Jacopo di Cione workshop (attributed to), Coronation of the Virgin (National Gallery, London) 30, 31
San Romeo 9–10
San Salvatore al Monte 220–1, 357
Sant’Apollonia:
Andrea del Castagno Last Supper (Refectory)102, 103
Andrea del Castagno The Entombment, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection (Refectory) 104, 104
Santa Croce 19
Bardi Chapel 123–4, 130
Giotto, Proof by Fire 148, 149
Giotto, Saint Francis Renouncing Worldly Goods 148, 149, 151
Giotto, Verification of the Stigmata of Saint Francis 123–4, 123
Baroncelli Chapel
Giotto, Coronation of the Virgin 202–3, 203
chancel
Agnolo Gaddi, Construction of the Cross 57
Agnolo Gaddi, Empress Helena Recognizes the True Cross 31, 32
Peruzzi Chapel
Giotto, Ascension of Saint John the Evangelist 162, 162
Giotto, Feast of Herod 163–4, 164
Giotto, Raising of Drusiana 163, 163
Santa Felicita 80, 357
Santa Lucia dei Magnoli: Bicci di Lorenzo, da Uzzano family and 55
Domenico Veneziano, Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints Francis, John the Baptist, Zenobius, and Lucy (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 190, 191, 353
Santa Maria a Montici, parish of 310
Santa Maria degli Angeli 19
Lorenzo Monaco Coronation of the Virgin (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 67, 67
Santa Maria degli Ughi 12
Santa Maria del Carmine 41
Brancacci Chapel 47–9, 68, 98–102, 322, 334
Masaccio, Saint Peter Distributing Alms 68, 98, 99, 100, 101
Masaccio, Saint Peter Healing with his Shadow 98, 100
Masaccio, Tribute Money 152, 152
Santa Maria del Fiore: see Duomo
Santa Maria Novella 23, 179–80
Alberti façade and Giovanni Rucellai 23, 23, 319
Masaccio Trinity 48, 50–5, 51 , 352
Paolo Uccello The Flood (cloister) 132, 133
Strozzi Chapel 311
Tornabuoni Chapel 3, 107, 234–6, 238, 252–3, 333, 335–6
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Annunciation to Zacharias 2, 3, 4, 109, 236, 264, 264
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Baptist 241
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Birth of the Virgin 240
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple 335
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Marriage of the Virgin 242, 243
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Visitation 107, 240, 354–5
Santa Reparata 60
Santa Trinita:
Mariotto di Nardo Trinity with Saints Anthony Abbot, Michael, Francis and Julian 50, 52, 52, 322
Sassetti Chapel 107, 120–30, 238, 335–6
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule by Pope Honorius III 125, 126, 127, 261, 335–6
Domenico Ghirlandaio, portrait of Francesco Sassetti as donor 261
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Saint Francis before the Sultan 120, 121 , 124
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Saint Francis Renounces His Worldly Goods 127
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Resuscitation of the Roman Notary’s Son 125, 126, 128, 129, 254, 335
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Verification of the Stigmata of Saint Francis 92, 120, 121, 124, 125, 127, 129
sculpture: tomb of Francesco Sassetti 120, 121, 247
Strozzi Sacristy 10, 11, 25–30, 33, 45, 63
Santissima Annunziata: 10, 103, 119; Giovanni di maestro Antonio and 60; Strozzi family and 10; Piero del Tovaglia and 6–9; votive offerings 335
Annunciation mural 196–7, 198, 202
Corboli Chapel
Andrea del Castagno, Saint Jerome and the Trinity and Saints Paula and (?)Eustochium 103, 103
Santo Spirito 269, 356
Filippino Lippi, Nerli altarpiece 176 , 216–26, 216, 217, 219, 224, 354, 3567
Barbadori Chapel
Fra Filippo Lippi, Virgin and Child with Saints Frediano and Augustine (“Barbadori altarpiece”) (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 190, 190, 356
Bardi Chapel
Botticelli, Virgin and Child with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 190, 221, 358
Corbinelli Chapel
Cosimo Rosselli, Virgin and Child with Saints Thomas and Augustine 222, 222
Santo Stefano a Ponte 137
hospitals:
degli Innocenti: Brunelleschi and 47–8, 50
del Bigallo 71
Santa Maria Nuova 20
neighborhoods and quarters:
Borgo San Frediano 73–4, 218
Borgo San Jacopo 218
Carmine 98
Green Dragon 317, 325–6, 328, 334
Red Lion 317, 328
San Giovanni 5, 69–70
Santa Croce 5
Santa Maria a Verzaia 71
Santo Spirito 5, 244
Old Market (Mercato Vecchio) 117
palaces 309–11
Capponi delle Rovinate (da Uzzano) 13–16, 14
Corsi-Horne 310
Gianfigliazzi 310
Medici 11, 11, 168, 310
Diomedes and the Palladium (Courtyard) 168, 169
della Signoria (Palazzo Vecchio) 41, 118
Saletta murals of famous citizens 336
Sala dei Gigli doors 141, 337
Pitti 11–12, 11, 102
Rucellai 23, 23, 319
Spini 24, 24
Strozzi, 12–13, 12, 311
piazze:
Piazza della Signoria 5, 71
Brunelleschi and 95, 151–2
Piazza del Duomo 71
streets and gates:
Corso degli Adimari 71
Corso dei Dipintori (now Calzaiuoli) 71
Pian di Ripoli 19
Porta Romana 5
Porta Rossa 73
Porta San Gallo 5
Via Cocomero (now Ricasoli) 83
Via dei Servi 83
Via Nuova (now del Porcellana) 72
Via San Salvadore 73
Via Santa Chiara 74
Fonte, Bartolomeo (Bartolomeo Fonzio) 336
writing: Annales suorum temporum 324
forks 259–60
Forteguerri, Cardinal Carlo 60, 165–6; model for monument 165–6, 166
Francesco da Barberino: Reggimento e costumi di donna 218
Francione, and da Maiano brothers: Sala dei Gigli doors 141, 337
Franciscan Order 120–30, 178–9, 203, 329
funerals: Bruni, pomp and 35; oration for Palmieri 41
Gaddi family 75, 77
buildings and endowments: San Domenico and 354
Gaddi, Zanobi di 75
Gaddi, Taddeo 75
Gaddi, Agnolo di Taddeo 30, 75
paintings:
Construction of the True Cross (chancel, Santa Croce, Florence) 57
Empress Helena Recognizes the True Cross (chancel, Santa Croce, Florence) 31, 32
Virgin and Child with Saints Andrew, Benedict, Bernard, and Catherine of Alexandria (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 183, 184
Galen: Dante and 157
Genazzano, Mariano da 239; sermon by 272n.7
gender 103–12, 309; Andrea del Castagno and 103–4; Barberino’s Reggimento e costumi di donna 218; demeanor 333; prayer and women 218; qualities of a good wife 107, 240–1; spiritual education of women 180; Alessandra Strozzi and 104–5; viewing and gaze 103–12
genius (ingegno) 95
Gentile da Fabriano 45, 47, 319; comparison with Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio 45, 47; matriculation of 63; Palla Strozzi and 63; Palla di Palla Strozzi and 45, 47
paintings:
Adoration of the Magi (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 25–33, 26, 27, 28, 45, 63, 319
Presentation in the Tempie (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 18, 33, 33
Gerini, Niccolò di Pietro 30
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 43–5, 145, 168–72, 319, 322, 344; all’antica style and 55, 156; on Apelles 152–3; drawing (disegno) and 171–2; family 65; guild membership, practice and commissions 62, 75; intellectual status of art 152–3; Neri di Bicci and 214; Niccolò Niccoli and 168; perspectiva and 95–6; perspective and 152–6, 329; Antonio Pollaiuolo and 171–2; Palla Strozzi and 45–7, 50, 319; tomb types 55, 322
sculpture:
Baptismal Font, Siena cathedal: St John the Baptist brought before Herod 154 and Baptism of Christ 154, 154
Baptistery Doors competition panel: Sacrifice of Isaac (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 43, 45
East Doors 153–6, 213
Creation 169, 169
Portrait of Vittorio Ghiberti 74
Self-portrait 74
Story of Abraham 155
Story of Isaac 155
Story of Joseph 155, 212, 213
North Doors 55, 154
Annunciation 197, 197
Flagellation 154
Temptation of Christ 54
tomb of Bartolomeo Valori (designed by Ghiberti) by Filippo Cristofano (Santa Croce, Florence) 55, 56, 322
writing: Commentaries (I commentarii) 93, 95–6, 152–6, 171, 330, 344
Ghiberti, Vittorio di Lorenzo 75
Ghini family 65
Ghirlandaio, Domenico 3–4, 120–30, 163, 335–6; Dante and 125, 128–9
paintings:
Sassetti Chapel (Santa Trinita) 120–30, 335–6; representation of women in 107
Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule by Pope Honorius III 125, 126, 127, 261, 335–6
portrait of Francesco Sassetti 261
Saint Francis before the Sultan 120, 121, 124
Saint Francis Renounces His Worldly Goods 127
Resuscitation of the Roman Notary’s Son 125, 126, 128, 129, 254, 335
Verification of the Stigmata of Saint Francis 92, 93, 120, 121, 124, 125, 127, 29
Tornabuoni Chapel (Santa Maria Novella): portraits in 264, 335–6; representation of women in 107, 107
Annunciation to Zacharias 2, 3, 4, 109, 236, 264, 264
Birth of the Baptist 241
Birth of the Virgin 240
Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple 335
Marriage of the Virgin 243
Visitation 107, 240, 354–5
Gianfigliazzi palace 6, 310
Gianfigliazzi, Bongianni di Bongianni: chapel at Santa Trinita 6
Gianfigliazzi, Gherardo di Bongianni: religious bequests 6; palace 6
Gianfigliazzi, Ginevra (second wife of Lorenzo di Giovanni Tornabuoni) 240, 241
Gini, Maddalena di Berto di Giuliano (first wife of Antonio Pucci) 244
Ginori family 317
Giordano da Pisa (da Rivolta) 222
writing: Prediche sulla Genesi 301n.65
Giotto 55, 75, 148, 150; as the new Apelles 162–3, 341; authority and 136, 161–64; Baxandall and 341–2; Flavio Biondo and 342; Boccaccio and 341–2; Cennini and artistic training 161–2; Dante and 148, 161–4, 341–2; Domenico da Corella on 341–2; Ghirlandaio and 120, 123–4, 128, 130; Landino and 136, 161, 164, 341; Leonardo da Vinci on 161–2; Fra Filippo Lippi and 163; Masaccio and 55; perspective and 148, 150; Petrarch and 342; reputation 135–7, 161–4; Filippo and Giovanni Villani and 342; Vasari and 342
paintings:
Bardi Chapel (Santa Croce, Florence) 120, 123–4, 130
Proof by Fire, detail, Pagan Philosopher 148, 149
Saint Francis Renounces His Worldly Goods 148, 149, 151
Verification of the Stigmata of Saint Francis 123–4, 123
Baroncelli Chapel (Santa Croce, Florence)
Coronation of the Virgin 202–3, 203
Basilica of Saint Francis (Upper Church), Assisi 120–3
Verification of the Stigmata of Saint Francis (School of) 122
Peruzzi Chapel (Santa Croce, Florence)
Ascension of Saint John the Evangelist 162, 162
Feast of Herod 163–4, 164
Raising of Drusiana 163, 163
Scrovegni Chapel (Padua)
Betrayal of Christ 149
Marriage at Cana 253, 254
Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino da Sanminiato (Giovanni Chellini) 59–62, 70, 77–84, 324–5; Donatello and, Virgin and Child with Angels (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) xiv, 58, 59–62, 78–89, 88, 323; library of 79; lineage 80; nephew and heir Bartolomeo 82–3; offices held 79–80; portrait bust by Antonio Rossellino 79, 79, 82; Bernardo Rossellino’s tomb (attributed) 81, 81, 324–5; Santissima Annunziata and 60; social status of family 77; Studio and 325; taxable wealth and business dealings 70, 80–3; training 78–9
Giovanni di maestro Antonio, Cosimo di 80
Giovanni di maestro Antonio, Tommaso di 81
Giovanni di Marco (known as Giovanni dal Ponte) 55, 320
painting: Ascension of Saint John the Evangelist with Saints (National Gallery, London) 54
Giovanni di ser Giovanni (“Lo Scheggia”) 65, 326
painting: birth tray with Medici emblems on one side and Triumph of Fame on the other (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 15
Giovanni Pisano 340
Girolamo di messer Matteo Broccardi da Imola 325; Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 79, 83; Francesco Filelfo and 79, 325; Medici and 79; Studio and 325
Giuliano da Maiano: ownership of Dante’s Divina commedia 140; workshop and 326
woodworking: Sala dei Gigli doors (Francione, Benedetto da Maiano and) 141, 337
Gondi family 317
Gonfaloniere: Antonio Pucci and 244
Gonfaloniere di Giustizia 312
Gonzaga family: arms and imprese 7–8
Gonzaga, Giovan Francesco, Marquis of Mantua: dedication of Alberti’s De pictura 343
Gonzaga, Lodovico, Marquis of Mantua: Piero del Tovaglia and 6–9, 13, 310
Gozzoli, Benozzo 190, 353
paintings:
Virgin and Child with Angels and Saints Zenobius, John the Baptist, Jerome, Peter, Dominic, and Francis (National Gallery, London) 190, 191, 298nn.35 and 40, 354
Journey of the Magi (Palazzo Medici Chapel, Florence) 30, 174, 318
Grosseteste, Robert 329
Guariente family 65
Guelf Party (Parte Guelfa): all’antica style and 47–55; Brunelleschi and 47, 316, 320; Bruni and 47; Donatello and 47, 316, 320; Felice di Michele Brancacci and 47; Saint Louis niche at Orsanmichele 47
Guicciardini family 317; status 77
Guicciardini, Francesco: Medici and 317
writings:
Florentine History (Storie fiorentine) 271, 312
History of Italy (La storia d’Italia) 312
guilds (arti) xiii, 6, 42, 62–3, 65, 325; Armorers 110; Bankers (Cambio) 62–3, 244; Clothworkers (Ciompi) 33; Doctors and Druggists (Medici e Speziali) 62–3, 71, 325; Furriers (Vaiai e Pelicciai) 62–3; Judges and Notaries (Guidici e Notai) 62–3; Merchants (Calimala) 75; Silk Guild 7, 47; Woodworkers and Stonemasons (Pietra e Legname) 62–3, 244; Wool merchants (Lana) 42, 62–3, 332
honor xiii–xiv, 4, 6–9, chapters 2 and 3 passim, 130–1; acquisition of 6–9; appearances and 4; as a commodity 60–1; Bruni and 36; friendship and 60–1; lineage and 19–24, 63, 65; Cosimo de’ Medici, Donatello and 86, 89, 185–8; Strozzi family and 40; works of art and 113–14
Horsetamer (marble, Quirinal, Rome) 171, 171
Humbert of Romans 189
writing: De eruditione praedicatorum 299n.46
imagination (imaginativa) xiv, 96–7, 129, 150, 177–9; cognitive awareness and 129–31, 135–7; Dante and 135, 137–8, 177–9; memory and xv, 104, 118–19, 215–18; witnessing and punishments 117–19
imitation of nature: Alberti and 151; Apelles, Ghiberti and 151–3; Buti, Dante, Landino and 135–7; Leonardo da Vinci and 151–2
ingenuity: see artifice
Innocent VIII, Pope (Giovanni Battista Cibo): Pollaiuolo brothers and 76
inventories 13–17
Filippino Lippi 140
Benedetto da Maiano 140
Medici, 1492 16–17
Pucci, 1484 358
Tornabuoni, 1497 16
da Uzzano 14–16
Lancialotti, Jacopo 77
Landino, Cristoforo 264, 264; artistic excellence and 136; Buti and 135–6; Dante and 135–6, 146, 159–61, 336–8; Donatello and 95, 139; Giotto and 136, 161, 164, 341–2; Fra Filippo Lippi and 139, 213; Masaccio and 95, 139; perspective, in praise of artists 95; Uccello and 95
writings:
Commentary (Comento) on Dante’s Divina commedia 95, chapter 5 passim, 336–8, 341–2; artistic excellence and 95, 139; Botticelli and 263; delight and 160–1
On the Soul (De Anima) 288n.40
Landucci, Luca 249, 269–71
Lanfredini, Giovanni: Antonio Pollaiuolo and 166
Lanfredini, Jacopo d’Orsino: Antonio Pollaiuolo and 170
Laura: Petrarch and 157
learning: authors and 161; Bruni’s Study of Literature 161; Medici family and 286n.11; Lorenzo de’ Medici and 165–6, 263–5; Antonio Pucci and 264–5; Francesco Sassetti and 247
Lenzi, Lorenzo: as father-in-law of Roberto Pucci 238, 242, 243
Leonardo da Vinci 72, 131, 133, 151, 169, 172, 225, 346; Alberti and 95–6; Giotto and 148; imitation of nature 140–1, 151–2; Medici circle and 346; ownership of Dante’s texts 140–41; perspectiva and 95–6, 151–2, 329; perspective 93, 95–6, 151–2
drawings:
Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli Shown Hanged (Musée Bonnat, Bayonne) 118, 119
Head of a Woman (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 131, 131
Head of Saint Philip for the “Last Supper” (Royal Library, Windsor Castle) 148, 148
Landscape (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 140–1, 141
Six Studies of Figures for the Adoration of the Magi (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 130, 131
Star of Bethlehem, with Crowsfoot and Wood Anemone (Royal Library, Windsor Castle) 140–1, 141
Vertical and Horizontal Sections of a Head, Showing One of His Variations on the Three Ventricles, the Location of the Faculties (Royal Library, Windsor Castle) 96, 97
paintings:
Adoration of the Magi (unfinished) (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 225–6, 226
Ginevra de Benci (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 112, 112, 333
writings:
Notebooks 131, 140
Treatise on Painting 160
Leopold II, Duke xi
lineage xviii; Bini family and 248; Giovanni di maestro Antonio and 80; honor and 19–24, 63, 65; marriage and 238–50; Pucci family and chapter 7 passim; Sassetti family and 129, 238
Lippi, Filippino 356–8; all’antica style and 225; as the new Apelles 221–2; inventory of 140; ownership of Dante’s texts and 140; perspective and 223–6
drawings:
Portrait of Petrarch 337
Saint Martin Giving His Cloak to a Beggar (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi, Florence) 220, 220
paintings:
Carafa Chapel (Santa Maria Sopra Minerva, Rome) 221–2
Strozzi Chapel (Santa Maria Novella, Florence) 311
Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist, Saint Martin of Tours, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the Donors, Tanai dei Nerli and his Wife Nanna di Neri Capponi (“Nerli altarpiece”) (Santo Spirito, Florence) 133, 206, 216–26, 216, 217, 219, 224
Virgin and Child (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) 193, 193
Vision of Saint Bernard (Badia, Florence) 176, 222, 223
Lippi, Fra Filippo 351, 356: altarpiece design and 356; artifice and 209–15; as monastic artist 66, 206–14; Carmelite patronage 68–9; Donatello and 213; gaze and gesture in 133; Giotto and 163; Landino and 139, 213; Fra Filippino Lippi’s style and 225; Medici and 68–9; perspective and pictorial devices 194, 209–15, 351; style 209–15; workshop practice 327
paintings:
Annunciation (Alte Pinakothek, Munich) 206–14, 208, 212, 213
Annunciation (San Lorenzo, Florence) 209, 210
Celebration of the Relics of Saint Stephen (chancel, cathedral, Prato) 163, 163
Coronation of the Virgin (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 90, 209, 211
Feast of Herod (chancel, cathedral, Prato) 163–4, 164
Portrait of a Young Woman (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 108, 108
Virgin and Child (Galleria di Palazzo Barberini, Rome, in deposit at the Museo Nazionale di Corneto Tarquinia) 68, 68
Virgin and Child (“Bartolini Tondo”) (Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Florence) 112, 113
Virgin and Child with Two Angels (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 132, 133, 134, 195
Virgin and Child with Saints Frediano and Augustine (“Barbadori altarpiece”) (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 190, 190, 356
Lippo di Andrea 320
liturgy 347–51; impact of patronage on 347–8; San Lorenzo and 347–8; Sassetti Chapel and 129
Livy, Historiae ab urbe condita 269
Lorenzo di Bicci: artistic lineage 65; Vasari and 320; workshop and style 52
Lorenzo di Neri di Bicci: apprenticeship of 74–5
Lorenzo Monaco: as monastic artist 66–8; comparison with Ghiberti 55; perspective and 351
paintings:
Coronation of the Virgin (National Gallery, London) 67, 67; right wing of polyptych 54, 55
Coronation of the Virgin (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) 67, 67
Lorini, Bernardo di Taddeo, family of: Donatello, Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 83
Lorini, Giovanni di Bonaiuto (nephew of Donatello) 72, 83
Lorini, Giovanni di Bernardo 83
love and literature: Boccaccio and chapter 7 passim; Dante and 157–9; Lorenzo de’ Medici as poetic lover 93–4, 157, 262–3; Petrarch and 157, 262
Lysippus 160, 213
Machiavelli, Niccolò: Florentine Histories (Istorie fiorentine) 250, 312, 317
maestro Giovanni: see Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino
Magistratura della Grascia 115
magnificence: Antoninus and 38; Aristotle and 34, 36–8; Bruni and 34, 36–8; Medici family and 16–17, 25, 185–7, 315, 317–18; Palmieri and 38–42; Pucci family and 247; Strozzi family and 25–30, 33; wealth and 34–42
Mainardi, Arlotto (Piovano) 215–16
Mainardi, Sebastiano: portrayed by Ghirlandaio 128, 129, 335
Manetti family: Pucci-Manetti alliance 244–5
Manetti, Antonio 78; as biographer of Brunelleschi 321
Manetti, Bernardo di Giannozzo: Medici alliances and 245
Manetti, Giannozzo: Bruni’s funeral and 35; as biographer of Boccaccio 263; Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and 137–8, 336; exile to Rome and Naples 245; marriage of daughter Piera to Antonio Pucci 244–5; marriage of daughter to Francesco di Alamanno degli Albizzi 244–5
writings:
Dialogus in symposio 263
Lives of Three Illustrious Italian poets (Vitae trium ilustrium poetarum Florentinorum) 336
Manetti, Piera di Gianozzo: as second wife of Antonio Pucci 244–5
Manetto (known as Grasso) and La Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo 116–17
Marco di Filippo: and members of family, taxable wealth and 71–3
Mariano, don 276n.4
Mariotto di Cristofano 9–10
marriage 9–10, chapter 7 passim, 362–5; broking 244, 249; decrees of the Council of Trent 242; lineage and 238–50; marriage chests (forzieri) 333, 359; Medici family, as brokers 239, 244–7; portrayal of, in Tornabuoni Chapel 241, 252–3; Pucci family marriages 237–50; qualities of a good wife 107, 240–1; rituals 240–3; see also alliances and dowries
Martelli family: arms, by Donatello 109, 109; Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 83; Lorini and 83; taxable wealth and 70
Martin V, Pope (Oddone Colonna) 47
Martini, Giovanni di Luca: Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 60
Martini, Martino di Luca: Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 60
Masaccio: 151, 322, 325, 352; all’antica style and 47–9; artistic practice, Masolino and 325; as bachelor artist 72; Brunelleschi and 47–8, 152; comparison with Gentile da Fabriano 45; Donatello and 47–9; Giotto and 55, 162; Landino and 95; Fra Filippo Lippi and 68; perspective and 152, 329; style 52, 55, 139
paintings:
Brancacci Chapel (Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence) 47, 68, 98–102, 334
Saint Peter Distributing Alms 68, 68, 98, 99, 100, 101
Saint Peter Healing with his Shadow 98, 100
Tribute Money 152, 152
Trinity (Santa Maria Novella, Florence) 48, 50–5, 51
Virgin and Child (National Gallery, London) 47–9, 48, 49
Masolino 322, 325; artistic practice, Masaccio and 325
paintings: Brancacci Chapel (Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence) 47–8, 68, 98–102, 334
Mazzei, Lapo: Dante and 140
medical profession and practice 60–1, 78–81, 324
Medici family 5, 77, 312, 317–18; arms and 229, 237, 248, 252, 261; bank, and Francesco Sassetti 238, 247; circle of 238, 240, 337–8; Donatello and xix; expulsion x; Francesco Filelfo and 79; inventory, 1492 16–17, 169; Fra Filippo Lippi and 68–9; magnificence and 16–17, 25, 38, 185–7, 229, 315, 317–18; Niccolini and 246; palace interior 310; patronage xix, 38, 185–8, 317–18; Pazzi Conspiracy and 118–19, 250, 265, 267; Pollaiuolo brothers and 76, 166; portraits in Sassetti Chapel 335; power of 68–9; Pucci and 243–50; regime 25, 250; status 77; Giovanni Tornabuoni and 238; wealth of, in Dei’s Cronica 248
buildings and endowments:
Bosco ai Frati xix
Medici Palace 11, 11, 30, 168, 310, 317–18
Diomedes and the Palladium (Courtyard) 168, 169
Santa Croce xix
San Lorenzo xix, 309
San Marco xix
Virgin and Child with Saints (“San Marco altarpiece”), Fra Angelico (Museo di San Marco, Florence) 132, 133, 182, 185–9, 186, 187, 206
villas at Careggi and Mugello xix
votive images at Santissima Annunziata 119
Medici, Cosimo de’ xviii–xix, 11, 25; Giovanni d’Amerigo Benci and 206; Bruni and 34; Dominicans and 185, 187; Donatello and xix, 50, 86, 89; exile 25; Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 79; honor and 89; as marriage broker 244–5, 249; Michelozzo and 50, 70–1; Virgin and Child with Saints (“San Marco altarpiece”) 132, 133, 182, 185–7, 186, 187; Otto Niccolini and 246; patronage xix, 317–18; Pucci family ties 244–6, 249; regime 25, 114; return from exile 79, 114; Tommaso Soderini and 239; taxable wealth and 70; Vespasiano da Bisticci and 86, 89
Medici, Duke Alessandro de’ x
Medici, Duke Cosimo de’ x
Medici, Giuliano de’ 335; Pazzi Conspiracy and 118, 250, 262–5; portrait of, by Botticelli 262, 262 ; portrait of, in Botticelli’s Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 260, 262
Medici, Giovanni di Lorenzo de’ 248, 335
Medici, Lorenzo de’ 165–9, 225, 229, 247–8, 250, 317–18; artistic expertise 12–13, 16–17, 165–9; Bertoldo di Giovanni and 166, 345; circle of 264; collecting and antiquities 16–17, 25, 165–9, 318, 343; composer of dance Venus 105; Dante and 138–40, 362; learning and 165–6, 263–5; as marriage broker 239, 246–7, 249; Michelangelo and 166, 346; Michelozzo and 77; Pazzi Conspiracy and 118–19; poetic lover 93–4, 157 , 262–3; political behavior 267; promotion of the vernacular 138, 262–3; Pucci-Bini marriage and 229; Sassetti Chapel and 336; sculpture garden 166, 168, 318, 343; Filippo Strozzi and palace building 13; Simonetta Vespucci and 157
Medici, Lorenzo di Giovanni de’ 116
Medici, Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’: Botticelli’s illustrations for Dante’s Divine Comedy and 141, 263, 340
Medici, Lucrezia de’ 106
Medici, Margherita di Bernardo di Alamanno de’ 245
Medici, Piero de’ 11–12, 25, 106, 187, 216, 317–18; collecting and antiquities 16–17; Donatello and 72; Otto Niccolini and 246; Vasari and 72
Medici, Piero di Lorenzo de’ 165, 269
Medici, Smeralda di Alamanno di Bernardo de’: marriage to Francesco Bini 248
memory xi, 6–9, 96, 135–6, 147–50, 203, 213–16, 237–8, 349; Bruni and 156; Buti, visible speech and 135; collective 114–16, 118–19; Dante and 148, 150; devotion and 179–83, 214–16; Ghirlandaio and 124–30; Medici damnatio memoriae 119; preaching and 203–4; punishment and 117–19; theories of 96, 203; visualizing 115–16; witnessing and 114–16, 120, 123, 128–31
Merchant’s Tribunal (Mercanzia) 114
Michelangelo Buonarotti 169, 346; as bachelor artist 72; as part of Medici household 166, 346; Condivi and 346; Giotto and 162–3; Poliziano and 346; Vasari and 346; virility and violence in 172, 172
drawing: study after figures from Giotto’s Ascension of Saint John the Evangelist (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 162–3, 162
painting: Entombment (National Gallery, London) 351
sculpture: Battle of the Centaurs (Casa Buonarrotti, Florence) 166, 167, 172 , 172
Michelozzo 324, 327; Donatello and 70; Cosimo de’ Medici and 50, 70–1; Medici and 77; social status 77; taxable wealth 70
Michelozzi, Niccolò di: as notary 77, 303n.22
Milanesi, Biagio 335
modesty 116–17; Francesco Barbaro and 116; Palmieri and 116–17
monastic artists chapter 6 passim, 353–8; Fra Angelico as 66, 116, 185–8, 354–5; Fra Filippo Lippi as 66, 209–14; Antonia di Paolo Uccello as 66
Montedoglio, Countess Princivalle da 246
Montepulciano: Bartolomeo Aragazzi and 36
Morelli, Giovanni di Pagólo 181–3, 189, 225, 241; Aristotle and 138; Boethius and 138; Cicero and 138; Dante and 138; devotional ritual and 194; on a suitable wife 241
writing: Ricordi 181–2, 241
Myron 160
Naples, King Ferdinand I of 26; letter from Antonio Pucci to Lorenzo de’ Medici 238; Lorenzo de’ Medici’s visit 1480 250; Pazzi Conspiracy and 250
Napoleone, Francese 118
Nardo, Mariotto di: Trinity with Saints Anthony Abbot, Michael, Francis and Julian (Santa Trinita, Florence) 50–2, 52 , 322
Nasi family patronage 316, 350
Neri di Bicci 22, 52, 214–15, 320–21; altarpieces and 214–15, 352, 355; Fra Angelico and 214–15; artistic lineage 65, 73; Ghiberti and 214–15; household and expenditure 60, 73–5; Fra Filippo Lippi and 214–15; status 73–5; Tanai de’ Nerli and 357–8; taxable wealth and 73–4; workshop 73–4, 326–7
paintings:
Annunciation (Santa Lucia al Borghetto, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa) 214–15, 214
Annunciation (“Vettori”) (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence) 214–15, 215
Assumption of the Virgin (Philadelphia Museum of Art) 73, 73
Cederni altarpiece (Parma) 327
Virgin and Child with Tobias and the Archangel Raphael, and Saints Nicholas, Anthony Abbot, Julian, and Donnino (Museo dell’Arte Sacra, San Pietro in Bussolo, Tavarnelle Val di Pesa) 52, 53
Nerli, Tanai di Francesco de’ 220; Filippino Lippi Virgin and Child with the Infant John the Baptist, Saint Martin of Tours, Saint Catherine of Alexandria and the Donors, Tanai de Nerli and His Wife, Nanna di Neri Capponi (“Nerli altarpiece”) (Santo Spirito, Florence) 216, 217, 219, 224, 216–26, and donor portraits in 218, 357–8
Neri, Antonio di 75
Neri, Lorenzo di 74
Nero, Bernardo del: 1497 plot to restore Medici 269
Nicola Pisano 340
Niccoli, Niccolò 168–9, 291n.66, 320, 338; antiquities and 168; biography of 168; book-hunting passions of 343; Poggio Bracciolini and 168; cameo and 168; Dante and 137; as friend of artists 168; Ghiberti on 168–9
Niccolini family: lineage 245–6; wool trade and 246
Niccolini, Bernardo, as a Medici ally 246
Niccolini, Michele di Bernardo di Lapo: marriage to Oretta Pucci 245
Niccolini, Otto, as a Medici ally 246
Niccolini, Paolo 246
Officers of the Night 114, 117, 332
Onestà (Office of Decency) 114, 332; see also Ufficiali dell’Onestà
Onesti, Nastagio degli chapter 7 passim; Boccaccio’s story of 229–38, 362; Botticelli’s panels 229–38, 251–71 passim
Opera del Duomo 65, 81
optical science: see perspectiva
Orcagna, Andrea (di Cione) 29–30
painting: Virgin and Child with Saints Andrew (or Philip), Nicholas of Bari, John the Baptist, and James (Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence) 183, 183
order 3–4; artifice and xvi, 3–4, 184–5, 229, 232, 235–8, 269–71; civic xvi, 3–4, 17, 235–8, 269–71; domestic 9; social 35, 269–71; wealth and 38
Orsini, Clarice: marriage to Lorenzo de’ Medici 248
Otto di Balià 118
Otto di Guardia 114, 118, 332
Padellaio, Piero di Antonio 71
Padua, Scrovegni Chapel, Giotto and 253
Betrayal of Christ, detail Kiss of Judas 148, 149
Marriage at Cana 254
Palmieri, Matteo 314; Aristotle and 38, 43; Cicero and 41, 43, 49; Dante and 336; dress and adornments 108–9; Giotto and 55; life and death of 41–2; on artistic status 49; on behavior 108–9; on civic embellishments 40–2; on demeanor 116–17; on magnificence 38, 40; on the rebirth of the arts 173; on usefulness 40; on virtue 108–9; on wealth 38–40; Quintilian and 43; readers of 49; rhetoric and 43–57
writing: On Civil Life (Della Vita Civile) 38–50, 108–9, 116–17, 265, 336
Pandolfini family: Alberti and 22–3
Pandolfini, Agnolo: Alberti and 22–3, 313
Parenti, Marco 11–12, 114
Passera, Lorenzo: Jacopo del Sellaio’s Crucifixion with Saints Lawrence, Frediano, and Catherine of Alexandria, the Virgin, and Saints Mary Magdalene, John the Evangelist, Sebastian, and the Archangel Raphael and Tobias (San Frediano in Cestello, Florence) 22, 22
patronage: chapter 2 passim, 316–19; influence on liturgy 347–8; Medici family and xviii–xix, 38, 185–8, 316–18; patterns of 316–19; Rucellai family and 23, 319; Strozzi family and 10–13, 26–30, 310–11, 318–19; Tovaglia family and 6–9, 310
Paul II, Pope (Pietro Barbo), as collector of antiquities 168; Otto Niccolini and 246
Paul, Saint 196
Pazzi Conspiracy 118–19, 129, 250, 265, 267
Pazzi family, taxable wealth 70
Pazzi, Francesco 250
Pazzi, Jacopo 250
Pazzi, Piero de’ 4
Pecham, John, Ghiberti and 344
writing: Perspectiva communis 96, 329
Pelacani, Biagio (of Parma): Quaestiones super perspectivam 328
perspectiva (science of optics) 93–6; Alberti and 93–6, 150; Aristotle and 96, 150; Thomas Aquinas and 96; Feo Belcari and 96; Cicero and 150; Dante and 135–7, 148–56; Ghiberti and 95–6; Leonardo da Vinci and 95–6, 151–2, 329–30; literature on 95–6, 150
perspective 93–6, 103, 185–7, 232, 329–30, 351; Alberti and 95–6, 150, 229; Fra Angelico and 185–9, 205; Botticelli and 141–6, 232; Brunelleschi and 93, 95, 152; Ghiberti and 152–6; Giotto and 148, 150; Landino, in praise of artists 95; Leonardo da Vinci and 93, 95–6, 151–2; Fra Filippo Lippi and 209–15; literature on 95–6, 329–30, 343–4, 351
Perugino, Pietro: Vasari’s life of xii
Peter of Limoges: De oculo morali 329, 347
Petrarch 262, 337; Dante, portrait on doors of Sala dei Gigli 141, 337; delight in the arts 165; drawing (disegno) and 171; Giotto and 342; Laura and 157; love lyrics, Gianozzo Manetti and 137
writing: De remediis utriusque fortunae 165, 171
physicians: see medical practice
Piero della Francesca: codification of perspective and 329
Pierozzi, Antonino: see Antoninus
Pietrasanta, siege of 269
Pisa: business interests of Bini and Capponi in 248, and of Antonio Pucci in 248
Pisa, maestro Ugolino da 60
Pitti, Buonaccorso: influence on career of Donatello 321
Pitti, Luca 11 , 11–12, 102; Donatello and 321; palace and 11–12, 102; Giovanni Tornabuoni and 249
pleasure: see delight
Pliny: drawing (disegno) and 171; Ghiberti and 152, 344; Benvenuto da Imola citing 136
writing: Natural History 295n.109, 343
Podestà 114, 118; Andrea del Castagno Hanged Men 118; Pazzi Conspiracy 118; public shame 114–18
Poggio a Caiano 310
Poggio Reale 310
Poliziano, Agnolo 264, 264, 336, 346
writing: Stanze de Messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del Magnifico Giuliano di Piero de’ Medici 262–5
Pollaiuolo, Antonio del 216, 345; all’antica style 171–2; antiquities and 165–6; authority of 170–2; drawing and 170–2; Ghiberti and 171–2; guild membership and 62; Giovanni Lanfredini and 166; Jacopo d’Orsino Lanfredini and 170; Medici patronage and 76, 166; Pope Sixtus IV and 76, 168, 329; Pucci patronage and 76; social status 76
drawing: Design for a Thurible (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Uffizi, Florence) xxiv
prints:
Battle of the Nudes (Cleveland Museum of Art) 76, 76, 170, 170
engraved silver and enamel: binding of the manuscripts of Petrarch’s Triumphs and Sonnets, Life of Petrarch, the Canzionieri and Sonnets of Dante and Leonardo Bruni’s Life of Dante (attributed to) (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris) 364
paintings:
Apollo and Daphne (National Gallery, London) 158
Portrait of a Young Woman (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan) 108, 108
sculpture: Hercules and Antaeus (possibly Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 166
Pollaiuolo, Piero del 216; antiquities and 165–6; Medici patronage and 76, 166; Pucci patronage and 76; social status and 76, 345
painting: Annunciation (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 216, 216
Polycleitus: Dante and 135, 136, 166, 168, 169; engraving of figure by 160
Ponte, Giovanni dal: see Giovanni di Marco
portraiture 10, 117–19, 129, 193–4, 2I8, 333, 335–6
drawings:
Botticelli: Portrait of Dante 141, 337
Filippino Lippi: Portrait of Petrarch 337
paintings:
Botticelli: Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 262, 262
Botticelli: Story of Nastagio degli Onesti: 235, 252–3, 260–2; Lucrezia Bini (possible portrait) in 254 , 255; Piero Bini (possible portrait) in 261, 261 ; Giuliano de’ Medici in 260, 262; Lorenzo de’ Medici in 261, 261; Antonio Pucci in 234, 251, 254, 260, 261, 261; Francesco Sassetti in 253, 260, 261; Sibilla Sassetti (possible portrait) in 252–3, 252
Gentile da Fabriano: possible Strozzi family portraits in Adoration of the Magi 26, 27
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Sassetti Chapel): donor portraits of Francesco Sassetti and Nera Corsi on the altar wall 126, 129; Giuliano de’ Medici and Agnolo Poliziano in Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule by Pope Honorius III 127 , 335; Lorenzo de’ Medici, Antonio Pucci, Francesco Sassetti, and his son Federigo in Confirmation of the Franciscan Rule by Pope Honorius III 260–1, 261; Alessandro Pucci in Resuscitation of the Roman Notary’s Son 254; self-portrait and Sebastiano Mainardi in Resuscitation of the Roman Notary’s Son 128, 129, 336; Sibilla Sassetti in Resuscitation of the Roman Notary’s Son 252–3, 254
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Tornabuoni Chapel): humanists in Annunciation to Zacharias, 264, 264; (?) Giovanna Gianfigliazzi Tornabuoni and attendants in Birth of the Baptist241; Lodovica Tornabuoni in Birth of the Virgin 240; self-portrait with Sebastiano Mainardi and Davide Ghirlandaio in Expulsion of Joachim from the Temple 336; Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni and Ginevra Gianfigliazzi Tornabuoni in Visitation240
Leonardo da Vinci: Ginevra de’ Benci (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 112, 333
Filippino Lippi: donor portraits in the Nerli altarpiece (Santo Spirito, Florence) 218, 219
Fra Filippo Lippi: Portrait of a Young Woman (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 108, 108
Antonio del Pollaiuolo: Portrait of a Young Woman (Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan) 108, 108
sculpture:
Leon Battista Alberti: Self-portrait (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 94
Lorenzo Ghiberti: Vittorio Ghiberti and Self-portrait (East Door, Baptistery, Florence) 74
Andrea del Verrocchio (attributed): Francesco Sassetti (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 247
Prato 163–4; cathedral (chancel) 163–4; Donatello and 72; see also Fra Filippo Lippi
Praxiteles 168, 171
preaching: see sermons
Protogenes: Ghiberti, Pliny and 152
Pseudo-Pier Fancesco Fiorentino: workshop practice and 351
Ptolemy: extramission theory and 150
public opinion and eyewitness (publica vox et fama): courts and 115–16; Manetto (Grasso) and 116
Pucci family xvi, chapter 7 passim; arms, in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 229, 230, 260; Dei’s Cronica and 248; inventory, and Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 358; Medici and 243–50; palace 358; Pollaiuolo brothers and 76; portraits and heraldry of family and associates in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 235, 254, 261 ; “Puccini” and Medici 244; Soderini and 239–40; status of 244
Pucci, Alessandro di Antonio 246; marriage to Sibilla di Francesco Sassetti 246, 249, 260–1; portrait in Sassetti Chapel 254
Pucci, Antonio di Puccio 63, 229, 235–8, 244–50, 260–1, 264, 269–71; alliances 236–50; learning and 264–5; Gianozzo Manetti and 244–5; Cosimo de’ Medici as marriage broker 244–5; Lorenzo de’ Medici as marriage broker 246–7; portrait of, in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 252, 260–61, 261 ; public offices held 63, 244, 250; Francesco Sassetti and 247–8; studio and 264
Pucci, Elena di Antonio 246
Pucci, Giannozzo di Antonio 229; Giulia Farnese and 249; learning and 264; marriage to Lucrezia Bini chapter 7 passim; marriage to Smerelda di Ugolino del Marchese di Monte Santa Maria 246; as Medici conspirator 269; Lorenzo de’ Medici as marriage broker 247
Pucci, Giovanni di Puccio 244
Pucci, Lorenzo di Antonio 239, 244, 248; doctorate in canon law 264
Pucci, Lucrezia di Antonio 244; marriage to Francesco di Jacopo degli Agli 245
Pucci, Oretta di Antonio: marriage to Michele di Bernardo di Lapo Niccolini 245
Pucci, Piero di Antonio: letter regarding betrothal of brother 238–40; Lorenzo de’ Medici as marriage broker 244
Pucci, Puccio di Antonio: doctorate in civil law 264; marriage to Geronima di Pierluigi Farnese 248–9
Pucci, Puccio di Puccio xviii, 244; exile 244; Cosimo de’ Medici and 244–5
Pucci, Roberto di Antonio 229, 238
Pucci, Selvaggia di Antonio (wife of Luca di Giorgio Ugolino) 245
“Puccini”: Medici partisans and Pucci 244
Pugliese, del, family, patronage 350
Pugliese, Piero del 222, 357–8
Quintilian 43
writing: Institutio oratoria 160, 343
Raphael 351
paintings:
Entombment (Galleria Borghese, Rome) 227
Transfiguration (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome) 227
reputation 113–14, 169; Dante and 137–40; Donatello and xiv, 61, 83, 323–4; justice system and 114–17; Landino, Giotto and 136, 161 4; Medici family and 16; Piero de’ Medici and 8; Giovanni Rucellai and 39; Lodovico Strozzi and loss of 40; see also authority and honor
rhetoric 43–57, chapter 5 passim, 196 , 202–4, 350–1; Bruni and 156; Cicero and 43–57, 160–1; delight and 160–1; Palmieri and 43–57; persuasion and 157–61; vernacular and 138–9
Ridolfi, Niccolò: 1497 plot to restore Medici 269
Rinuccini, Alamanno, Palmieri and 41–2
Rinuccini, Cino: Invettiva contro a certi calunnzatori di Dante, 137, 138, 286n.11
Robbia, Andrea di Marco della 75–6
Robbia, Giovanni della 75
Robbia, Luca della: Alberti and 322; artistic lineage 75–6; Niccolò Niccoli and 168; ownership of Dante’s Vita nuova 140; taxable wealth 75
work: Virgin and Child (Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 75, 75
Robbia, Marco della 75–6
Robbia, Simone di Marco della 76
Rome 266–8; ecclesiastical hierarchy, Lorenzo Pucci and 248–9; Farnese-Pucci marriage links 248–9; Florence and 320; Orsini-Medici marriage links 248
churches:
Santa Costanza 105
Santa Maria sopra Minerva 221
Santa Martina 266–7
Santo Stefano Rotondo 105
sculpture:
Clemency of Marcus Aurelius to Barbarians, sarcophagus (Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome) 267
Arch of Constantine, detail showing the Trajanic battle frieze with a mounted Emperor overpowering a Barbarian 267
Rondinelli, Scolastica, Abbess of Le Murate 209
Rosselli, Cosimo 190, 222
paintings:
Virgin and Child with Saints Thomas and Augustine (Corbinelli Chapel, Santo Spirito) 222, 222
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist and Saints James and Peter (Cenacolo di San Salvi, Florence) 190, 192 , 354
Rossellino, Antonio: Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 79, 324–5
sculpture:
Maestro Giovanni di Antonio di Chellino da Sanminiato (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) 79, 79, 82
Matteo Palmieri (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 39
Rossellino, Bernardo 324
sculpture:
tomb effigy of maestro Giovanni di Antonio di Chellino da Sanminiato (attributed to) (San Domenico, San Miniato) 81, 81
tomb of Leonardo Bruni (Santa Croce, Florence) 35–6, 37
Rossello di Jacopo 320
Rucellai family: Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 82
Rucellai, Giovanni 319; Alberti and 23; arms and emblems 23, 23; Cicero and 23; Manetto (known as Grasso) and 116; on building 23; on reputation 39; on wealth 39; response to art 105
buildings and endowments 23
façade, Santa Maria Novella 23, 23 , 319
Holy Sepulcher Shrine, San Pancrazio 21–3, 23, 319
Loggia 23, 319
Rucellai Palace 23, 23, 319
Rustichi, Antonio di Lionardo 9–10, 15
Sacchetti, Bartolomea di Andreolo di Niccolò di Franco 81
Sacchetti, Franco: II Trecentonovelle, Dante and 140
sacra conversazione 188–92, 226
Sali, Piero di Bartolomeo 75
Salimbeni, Damiano Bartolini 16
Salviati, Francesco, Archbishop of Pisa 118; Pazzi Conspiracy and 250
Salviati, Jacopo d’Alamanno (heirs), Cosimo Rosselli and 354
San Miniato: Giovani di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 80–1; Società del Corpo di Cristo 80
churches:
San Francesco 80
Santi Jacopo e Lucia (now San Domenico) 80–1
Sangallo, Antonio the Younger da: drawing of Pucci Palace 358
Sangallo, Giuliano da: model for Strozzi Palace 12–13
Sanminiato, maestro Antonio di Chellino da (father of Giovanni) 80, 324; Rossellino’s funerary monument to 81
Sassetti family: Capponi and 248; Dei’s Cronica and 248; Medici and 238
buildings and endowments:
Sassetti Chapel: see under Santa Trinita
Sassetti, Francesco 129, 120–30; antiquities and 247; arms and emblems 247–8; Capponi and 248; learning and 247; marriage of daughter Sibilla 247; Medici and 238, 247; portrait in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 253 ; portrait bust attributed to Andrea del Verrocchio 247; portrait in Sassetti Chapel 126 , 129, 260–1, 261; Antonio Pucci and 247–8; tomb in Sassetti Chapel 247
Sassetti, Sibilla di Francesco 247, 260; marriage to Alessandro Pucci 247, 260; portrait in Resuscitation of the Roman Notary’s Son 252, 254 ; possible portrait in Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 252, 252
Sassetti, Violante di Francesco: marriage to Neri di Gino Capponi 248
Savonarola, Fra Girolamo 116, 194–5; demeanor and 116–17; images and 180, 194–5; Medici and 337–8
writings:
Prediche sopra Ruth e Michea 180, 195–6
Treatise on Humility (Trattato dell’ umilità) 116–17
“Scheggia, Lo”: see Giovanni di ser Giovanni
scrutiny (squittino) 113–33 passim, 331
Second Council of Nicea 178
Sellaio, Jacopo del 22, 321
paintings:
Crucifixion with Saints Lawrence, Frediano, and Catherine of Alexandria, the Virgin, and Saints Mary Magdalene, John the Evangelist, Sebastian, and the Archangel Raphael and Tobias (San Frediano in Cestello, Florence) 22, 22, 321
Pietà with Saints Frediano and Jerome 22, 321
Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, attribution of some work to 359
sermons and preaching 203–4, 34–8–9; Antoninus and 203; ars predicandi 189; relation to devotional images 189–91; sermo modernus 189; sermon types 204
Serristori family, tomb (Santa Croce, Florence; anonymous) 56
Servite Order 7–8, 196–7, 203
Settignano, stonemasons and carvers 65
Sforza, Francesco, Duke of Milan 93
Sforza, Galeazzo Maria, Duke of Milan 93
shame 117–19; the body publically shamed 117–19, 332–3
Siena cathedral
sculpture:
Donatello (Baptismal Font): Feast of Herod 84, 84
Ghiberti (Baptismal Font): Baptism of Christ 154, 154 and Saint John the Baptist before Herod 154
Simone da Cascina: Colloquio Spirituale 301n.47
Sixtus IV, Pope (Francesco della Rovere): Pollaiuolo brothers and 76, 168, 329
Soderini family 312, 317
Soderini, Francesco di Tommaso, Bishop of Volterra 239; Pucci family and 239–40
Soderini, Giovanvittorio di Tommaso 239–40
Soderini, Margherita di Tommaso (Mona Maria) 238–40, 242, 272n.7
Soderini, Paolantonio di Tommaso 239–40
Soderini, Piero di Tommaso 239–40
Soderini, Tommaso 239–40; civic office held 239
Specchio: Bernardo Niccolini and 246
Spinello Aretino 19, 313
paintings:
Alberti arms (San Miniato al Monte, Florence) 20
Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Oratory of Saint Catherine, Antella) 32, 33
Spicchio, Simone da 355
Spini, Gerì degli: palace 24, 24, 327
Strozzi Chapel: see Santa Maria Novella
Strozzi family 310–11, 318–19; device 26, 27, 28, 29; Giovanni di maestro Antonio Chellino and 82; patronage xvi, 10–13, 26–30, 310–11
buildings and endowments: xvi, 10–13, 310–11
Lecceto Chapel 311
Strozzi Palace 12 , 311
Strozzi Sacristy (Santa Trinita, Florence) 10 , 25–30, 33
Gentile da Fabriano’s Adoration of the Magi (Santa Trinita) 25–33, 26, 27, 28
Strozzi, Alessandra 310; fashion and 107–8; honor and reputation 39–40; on a suitable wife 107, 241; Piero de’ Pazzi and 4; response to art 104–5
writing: Lettere 4, 310
Strozzi, Filippo di Matteo: Lecceto Chapel 311; Lorenzo de’ Medici, palace building and 12–13; Lucrezia de’ Medici and 106; patronage xvi, 10–13, 310–11
Strozzi, Girolamo di Carlo di Marco 10, 216
Strozzi, Lodovico di Francesco di Benedetto: loss of reputation 40
Strozzi, Lorenzo 4, 104, 310; possible portrait of in Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi 26, 27
Strozzi, Maddalena 47
Strozzi, Matteo 10, 310
Strozzi, Onofrio 25
Strozzi, Palla 318–19; Bruni and 34–5; Gentile da Fabriano and 45, 63; Lorenzo Ghiberti and 45–7; library and 319; Manuel Chrysoloras and 43; patronage 11; possible portrait of in Gentile da Fabriano, Adoration of the Magi 26, 25–30, 27; Sacristy and Sacristy Door, Santa Trinita 10, 25–30, 33, 45, 63
Strozzi, Palla di Palla 45
Strozzi, Zanobi 301n.60, 355
Studio 78–9; Giovanni di maestro Antonio di Chellino and 325; Antonio Pucci and 264
sumptuary laws 9, 31, 259–60
Tanagli, Francesco di Messer Guglielmino, daughter of 241
Temperani, Manno di Giovanni 21–2, 83
tomb sculpture 324; Bruni and 35–7; Ghiberti and Valori’s tomb 55; Rossellino and Bruni’s tomb 37; tomb of Francesco Sassetti 120, 121, 247
Tommaso di Girolamo da Imola 82–3
Tornabuoni family 3, 107, 235–7; inventory of palace 16
buildings and endowments:
Tornabuoni Chapel: see Santa Maria Novella
Tornabuoni, Dianora (second wife of Tommaso Soderini) 239
Tornabuoni, Giovanni 235–8, 241; Medici and 238; Luca Pitti and 249
Tornabuoni, Lodovica di Giovanni 240, 241
Tornabuoni, Lorenzo di Giovanni di Francesco 241; palace inventory of 1497 16; 1497 plot to restore Medici 269
Tovaglia, Angelo di Piero del 310
Tovaglia, Francesco del 6
Tovaglia, Piero del 6–9, 310; Antonio Benivieni and 7; Chapel of Saint Sigismund (Santissima Annunziata) 6–9; patronage and expenditure 6–9; Gonzaga and 6–9, 13; Servites and 7–8; Villa Tovaglia 310
Traversari, Ambrogio 291n.66
Traversari, daughter of Messer Paolo, in Boccaccio’s Story of Nastagio degli Onesti 232–8, 240
Trevisan, Ludovico 168
Uberti, Lucantonio degli: “Chain” View of Florence (after Francesco Rosselli) (Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) 5
Uccello, Antonia di Paolo, as monastic artist 66
Uccello, Paolo: Landino and 95; taxable wealth 70, 73
paintings:
Battle of San Romano (Musée du Louvre, Paris) 16, 17
The Flood (Cloister, Santa Maria Novella, Florence) 132, 133
Ufficiali dell’Onestà (Officers of Decency) 115; see also Onestà
Ugolini family: in Dei’s Cronica 248; lineage and status 245
Ugolini, Giorgio 248
Ugolini, Luca di Giorgio: marriage to Selvaggia Pucci 245
utility (utile) 34–42, 60–1; Palmieri and 38–42; of wealth 34–42
Uzzano family: palace 14, 15–16
Uzzano, Agnolo di Giovanni da: inventory of household 16
Uzzano, Niccolò di Giovanni da 312; Bicci di Lorenzo and 55; inventory 13–16; wealth and status 13–16
Vagliente family 65
Vallombrosan order 124
Valori, Bartolomeo di Niccolò: tomb designed by Ghiberti 55, 56, 322
Varchi, Benedetto x–xi
writing: Florentine History (Storia Fiorentina) x–xi
Vasari, Giorgio x; Lorenzo di Bicci and 320; Botticelli and 229; Dello Delli and x; Donatello and 72; Ghirlandaio portraits and 335–6; Giotto and 342; Medici and 72; Michelangelo and 346; Perugino and xii
writing: The Lives (Le Vite) 229, 358
vernacular 338; Boccaccio and 263; Bruni and 43; Dante and 138–9, 336–8; Domenico da Prato and 286n.11; Francesco Filelfo and 286n.11; Lorenzo de’ Medici and 138–9, 263, 286n.11; Niccolò Niccoli and 138–9, 338; Palmieri and 43; Petrarch and 338; Cino Rinuccini and 286n.11
Verrocchio, Andrea del 72, 345; guild membership and 62
drawing:
Study of a Female Head (British Museum, London) 112
sculpture:
Christ and Saint Thomas 345
David (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 110, 110, 111
model for the Forteguerri Monument (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) 165–6, 166
Francesco Sassetti (attributed) (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence) 247
Vespucci, Giorgio Antonio: teacher of Giannozzo Pucci 264
Vespucci, Giuliano: Marco di Filippo and 72
Vespucci, Simonetta 157
Villani family: taxable wealth and 70
Villani, Filippo: Dante and 336; Giotto and 342
writing: The Origins of the City of Florence and her Famous Citizens (De origine civitatis Florentie et de eiusdem famosis civibus) 336
Villani, Giovanni x; Giotto and 342
writing: Cronica x, 342
Virgil: Dante and 135–7, 140–6, 161
writing: Aeneid 137
virtue (virtù): modesty in dress and 108–9; Palmieri and 108–9; see also modesty
Vitruvius: drawing and 171
writing: On Architecture (De architectura) 295n.10
Voragine, Jacopo da: Golden Legend 31, 192, 204
votive images: Annunciation as votive image at Church of Ognissanti 197; Girolamo Strozzi and 10; Medici and 335
wealth: chapter 2 passim, 105–10, 315; Giovanni di Amerigo Benci and 206; Aristotle and 34, 36, 38; Bruni and 34–42; Dei’s Cronica 248; justification of 21, 34–42; magnificence and 34–42; Palmieri and 38–40; Alamanno Rinuccini on Palmieri and 41–2; Giovanni Rucellai on 39; sumptuary legislation 9; theories of 34–42; Piero del Tovaglia and 6–9; utility of 34–42; see also expenditure
Witelo, Erazmus Ciolek: Perspectiva 96, 328
workshop practice: chapter 3 passim, 320, 325–7, 350–1; Botticelli and 351; expenditure and 325–7; guilds and 62–3; Fra Filippo Lippi and 351; Giuliano da Maiano and 326; Neri di Bicci and 73–4, 326–7; Pseudo-Pier Francesco Fiorentino 351
Xenophon: Oeconomicus 21
Zanobi di Giovanni 326
Zanobi Strada 336
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