Architecture as performance / Alice Jarrard.

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Jarrard, Alice, 1960-

Title & Author:

Architecture as performance / Alice Jarrard.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 298 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Paradox of the Ducal Monarchy: The Este Exile -- Francesco d'Este's Statecraft and Dynastic Refoundation -- 1. The Urban Arena -- 2. The Duke and His Theater -- 3. Palace, Status, and Dynastic Refoundation -- 4. Portraits: Working Images of the Prince -- 5. Instrumenta Regni: From the Provinces to Rome and Paris.

Summary:

"This book probes the role of culture in statecraft by examining how seventeenth-century rulers pressed art and architecture into political service. Alice Jarrard focuses on the ambitious Italian patron Duke Francesco d'Este of Modena, who deployed artworks strategically for his exiled family. The duke drew from vital Italian court traditions for his festival practices, imported opera theater designs from Venice, and called on famed Roman artists, including Girolamo Rainaldi, Francesco Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, and Gianlorenzo Bernini, to create palaces and portraits. His spectacular image informed Este projects in Rome and, through his designer Vigarani, who was summoned to Paris to build a theater, shaped the early cultural practice of Louis XIV. Demonstrating how performance brought paintings, sculptures, and buildings to life by dissolving the boundaries between distant courts, Jarrard reveals the dynamic role of art in seventeenth-century political discourse."--Jacket.

Biographical note:

Alice Jarrard is Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Resources:
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Table of contents

ISBN:

0521815096
9780521815093

Subject:

Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio, 1610-1658 Art patronage.
Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio, 1610-1658.
Architecture Italy Modena 17th century.
Architecture and state Italy.
Architecture and state Europe.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Italie.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Europe.
Architecture.
Architecture and state.
Art patronage.
Europe.
Italy.
Italy Modena.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 229767
Call No.: NA1121.M6 J3 2003
Status: Available

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