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Titolo: Bachiacca. Artist of the Medici Court
Autore: Robert G. La France
Editore: Olschki
Lingua: English Text
Formato: 22,5 × 30 cm
Illustrazioni: 144 tavole fuori testo di cui 64 a colori
Pagine: XII - 462
Rilegato
Anno: 2008
Codice ISBN: 978-88-222-5764-2
Prezzo (di copertina): 140,00 Euro

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Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi (1494-1557), detto Bachiacca, produsse per la corte medicea opere d'arte sfarzose che combinavano la creatività figurativa italiana con lo stile paesaggistico nordeuropeo. Questo ampio studio affronta i vari generi dell'opera di Bachiacca e dimostra che, al contrario di quanto sostenuto dalla storiografia d'arte, fu un gusto cosmopolita e non solo un'ambizione nazionalista ad ispirare la cultura pittorica del '500. Il volume include un catalogo ed un'appendice documentaria.

Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi (1494-1557), nicknamed Bachiacca, provided the Medici court and privileged Florentine patrons with opulent works of art that combined the figural inventiveness of Italian artists with lush northern European landscapes. This comprehensive study of Bachiacca's work in all media explicates the artist's distinctive, hybrid style and demonstrates that cosmopolitan tastes, not nationalist narratives, inspired the vibrant pictorial culture of Renaissance Florence. It includes a catalog and documentary appendices.

The competition for cultural dominance in sixteenthcentury Europe demanded that patrons surround themselves with art that unambiguously proclaimed their international ambitions. The Florentine artist Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi (1494-1557), nicknamed Bachiacca, provided the Italo- Spanish Medici court and other privileged clients with opulent works of art that combined the figural inventiveness of Italian artists with lush northern European landscapes.
Bachiacca's meticulous illustrations of flora and fauna satisfied Duke Cosimo's curiosity about the natural world, his lavish tapestry cartoons celebrated Duchess Eleonora di Toledo's agricultural stewardship of Tuscany, and his extravagantlydetailed narrative paintings delighted wealthy bankers like Pierfrancesco Borgherini and Giovanmaria Benintendi.
Through close examination of Bachiacca's works in all media as well as contemporary documents, the author recaptures the successful career of an artist whose importance has been obscured by Vasari's emphasis on the grand manner.
This comprehensive study explicates the artist's distinctive, hybrid style and demonstrates that cosmopolitan tastes, not nationalist narratives, inspired the vibrant pictorial culture of Renaissance Florence.

Robert G. La France studied Italian Renaissance art at Syracuse University in Florence and received a Ph.D. in the history of art from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
He worked for three years as a research associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and is currently Curator of Pre-Modern Art at Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.