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Art Patronage Of The House Of Rovere In The Renaissance

Posted on:2016-01-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D Y ZhaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330503456463Subject:Art theory
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During the Renaissance, patrons play a pivotal role. They not only provide artists with financial resources necessary for the creation, and also go poured sponsor individual will into works of art. Patron and the artist has a strict contractual relationship and the artist should follow the terms of the contract creation. Art works of this period were not only the product of artists’ talent, but also symbol of patrons’ interest and status.It have a more mature approach to research Renaissance Art with angle of sponsor in Western academia. Based on these successful methods for reference, I select the House of Rovere as the main object of study. Trying to sort through the various stages of the main members of the sponsoring family style, theme and taste and other factors, a thorough presentation sponsored by the law of this family will be presented.The Rovere is one of the important patron of the arts of the Renaissance. From the first Pope Sixtus IV to the last Duke of Urbino in nearly 200 years, the family funded and commissioned a large number of well-known artists, resulting in a number of important works of art of the Renaissance. This article therefore study period spanned the second half of the 15 th century to the early 17 th century, and closely linked to the patron that the main line. The main object of the research paper is divided into five generations, two generations for the church before and three generations for the court after.The subject is belongs to the category of House sponsorship, which during this period fulfilled distinctive characteristics and unique representative because of relatively long duration and the unique taste. The Rovere as a representative of the family to study, on the understanding of the family at the same time patron of the arts and the social basis of contemporary culture, has profound significance. In this paper, a complete carding Rovere’s patron of the arts and the contemporary social basis and reference will have be made.
Keywords/Search Tags:House of Rovere, Renaissance, art patronage, art history
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