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Italy & Hungary : humanism and art in the early Renaissance / edited by Péter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman.

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Italy & Hungary : humanism and art in the early Renaissance / edited by Péter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman.
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[Firenze] : Villa I Tatti, ; Milan : Officina libraria, c2011.

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Additional Authors
  • Farbaky, Péter
  • Waldman, Louis Alexander.
Description
xli, 728 p ;. ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 25 cm.
Summary
In the later fifteenth century, the Kingdom of Hungary became the first land outside Italy to embrace the Renaissance, thanks to its king, Matthias Corvinus, and his humanist advisors, Janos Vitez and Janus Pannonius. Matthias created one of the most famous libraries in the Western World, the Bibliotheca Corviniana, rivaled in importance only by the Vatican. The court became home to many Italian humanists, and through his friendship with Lorenzo the Magnificent, Matthias obtained the services of such great Florentine artists as Andrea del Verrocchio, Benedetto da Maiano, and Filippino Lippi. After Matthias's death in 1490, interest in Renaissance art was continued by his widowed Neapolitan queen, Beatrice of Aragon, and by his successors Vladislav I and Louis II Jagiello. The twenty-one essays collected in this volume provide a window onto recent research on the development of humanism and art in the Hungary of Matthias Corvinus and his successors. Richly illustrated with new photography, this book eloquently documents and explores the unique role played by the Hungarian court in the cultural history of Renaissance Europe.
Series Statement
Villa I Tatti : The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies ; 27
Uniform Title
Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 27.
Alternative Title
  • Italy and Hungary
  • Humanism and art in the Early Renaissance
Subjects
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Note
  • Acts of an international conference at the Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, June 6-8, 2007.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-700) and index.
Language (note)
  • Contributions in English or Italian.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • Foreword / Joseph Connors -- Introduction / Péter Farbaky and Louis A. Waldman -- The study of the Hungarian Early Renaissance in Humanism and art. Risorgimento e Rinascimento in Ungheria / Ernő Marosi ; Introduzione alla recente storiografia sul Rinascimento in Ungheria / Lázló Szörényi -- Jolán Balogh : the founder of research into the Hungarian Renaissance / Gyöngyi Török ; Recent research on Early Renaissance art in Hungary / Péter Farbaky -- The flow of ideas : exchanges and encounters in literature and humanism. L'influsso del Concilio di Basilea sull'Umanesimo in Ungheria : I primi contatti degli Ungheresi con gli umanisti greci / Klára Pajorin ; Marsilio Ficino and the rise of philosophic interests in Buda / Valery Rees ; Andrea Mantegna e Giano Pannonio / Ágnes Ritoók-Szalay ; Where paradigms meet : the theology of political virtues in Andreas Pannonius' Mirrors for princes / Sándor Bene ;
  • Jacobus Piso, a Hungarian humanist in Rome / László Jankovits -- Matthias Corvinus and his court : the library, the residences, and the artists. Le biblioteche di Mattia Corvino e di Lorenzo il Magnifico : Confronti e tangenze (con alcune note sulla ritrattistica laurenziana e corviniana) / Angela Dillon Bussi ; Francesco da Castello in Lombardy and Hungary / Jonathan J.G. Alexander ; Gli affreschi quattrocenteschi dello Studiolo del Primate del Regno d'Ungheria a Esztergom : Una nuova attribuzione / Mária Prokopp ; Nuovi risultati sul restauro degli affreschi quattrocenteschi dello Studiolo del Palazzo Arcivescovile di Esztergom / Zsuzsanna Wierdl ; Florence and/or Rome? : the origins of Early Renaissance architecture in Hungary / Péter Farbaky ; The Royal Palace in Visegrád and the beginnings of Renaissance architecture in Hungary / Gargely Buzás ; Beatrice d'Aragona e il primo Rinascimento in Ungheria / Árpád Mikó ;
  • Commissioning art in Florence for Matthias Corvinus : the painter and agent Alexander Formoser and his sons, Jacopo and Raffaello del Tedesco / Louis A. Waldman -- Sculpture at the court of Buda : art, antiquity, and political ideals. Andrea del Verrocchio e i profili di condottieri antichi per Mattia Corvino / Francesco Caglioti ; White marble sculptures from the Buda Castle : reconsidering some facts about an antique statue and a fountain by Verrocchio / Dániel Pócs ; L'attività dello scultore Gregorio di Lorenzo per Mattia Corvino e due episodi sulla fortuna del Rinascimento nel collezionismo ungherese : il San Giovannino e un Salvatore coronato di spine al Museo di Belle Arti (Szépmüvészeti Múseum) di Budapest / Alfredo Bellandi ; Giovanni Dalmata at the Court of Matthias Corvinus in Hungary / Johannes Röll ; Jagiellonian epilogue : three Tuscan painters in the Buda of Louis II / Louis A. Waldman.
ISBN
  • 9780674063464 (HUP)
  • 0674063465 (HUP)
  • 9788889854785 (OL)
  • 8889854782 (OL)
OCLC
  • 754364694
  • SCSB-11464348
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library