Table Of ContentPatronage in the Renaissance
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PATRONAGE IN
THE RENAISSANCE
Edited by
Guy Fitch Lytle and
Stephen Orgel
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS VU
PREFACE Xl
CONTRIBUTORS xiii
PART I. Introduction
ONE Patronage in the Renaissance: An Exploratory Approach
WERNER L. GUNDERSHEIMER 3
PART II. Patronage in the Church and State
TWO Court Patronage and Government Policy: The Jacobean
Dilemma
LINDA LEVY PECK 27
THREE Corruption and the Moral Boundaries of Patronage in
the Renaissance
ROBERT HARDING 47
FOUR Religion and the Lay Patron in Reformation England
GUY FITCH LYTLE 65
PART III. Patronage and the Arts
FIVE Henry VII and the Origins of Tudor Patronage
GORDON KIPLING 117
SIX The Political Failure of Stuart Cultural Patronage
MALCOLM SMUTS 165
Literature
SEVEN Literary Patronage in Elizabethan England: The Early
Phase
JAN VAN DORSTEN 191
EIGHT John Donne and the Rewards of Patronage
ARTHUR F. MAROTTI 207
NINE Sir Walter Ralegh and the Literature of Clientage
LEONARD TENNENHOUSE 235
Theatre
TEN The Royal Theatre and the Role of King
STEPHEN ORGEL 261
ELEVEN Women as Patrons of English Renaissance Drama
DAVID Μ. BERGERON 274
Contents
The Visual Arts
TWELVE Artists, Patrons, and Advisers in the Italian
Renaissance
CHARLES HOPE 293
THIRTEEN The Birth of "Artistic License": The Dissatisfied
Patron in the Early Renaissance
H. W. JANSON 344
FOURTEEN Patterns of Preference: Patronage of Sixteenth-
Century Architects by the Venetian Patriciate
DOUGLAS LEWIS 354
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE 381
INDEX 383
Vi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1.1. T. Hodgson. Palestrina Offering his Masses to Julius III.
Illustration from Sir John Hawkins, A General History
of the Science and Practise of Music (London, 1776),
3:173. 14
1.2. Francesco del Cossa and assistants. Borso d'Este Rewarding
his Buffoon. Sal dei Mesi, Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara.
(Photo: Alinari.) 15
1.3. Giorgio Vasari. Apotheosis of Grand Duke Cosimo de'
Medici. Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. (Photo: Alinari.) 21
5.1. Unknown Flemish illuminator. Charles d'Orleans in the
Tower of London. Illumination from a manuscript of
the poems of Charles d'Orleans. British Library MS.
Royal 16 FII, fol. 73. Reproduced by permission of the
British Library Board, London. 129
5.2. Unknown sixteenth-century artist. James IV. Abbotsford
Abbey. 138
5.3. Unknown artist. Henry VII. Crown copyright. Victoria and
Albert Museum, London. 138
5.4. Unknown artist. Elizabeth of York. National Portrait Gal
lery, London. 138
5.5. Maynard Wewyck (?). Arthur Prince of Wales. Η. M. Queen
Elizabeth II, Copyright Reserved. Royal Collection,
Windsor Castle, London. 139
5.6. Maynard Wewyck (?). Henry VIII. Anglesey Abbey. 139
5.7. Maynard Wewyck. Lady Margaret Beaufort. By kind per
mission of the Master and Fellows of Christ's College,
Cambridge. 141
5.8. Pasquel Grenier. The Destruction of Troy. Tapestry. Crown
copyright. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 143
5.9. Piers Enghein (?). The Betrothal of Prince Arthur (?). Tap
estry panel. Magdalen College, Oxford. (Photo: cour
tesy of the National Monuments Record, England.) 145
5.10. Piers Enghein (?). The Betrothal of Prince Arthur (?). Tap
estry panel. Magdalen College, Oxford. (Photo: cour
tesy of the National Monuments Record, England.) 146
10.1. Frontispiece. From B. de Beaujoyaulx, Balet Comique de la
Royne (Paris, 1581). 268
10.2. Unknown artist. Cardinal Richelieu Entertains the King and
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Queen in the Theatre of the Palais Cardinal. Grisaille.
Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris. 269
10.3. Inigo Jones. Floor Plan for Florimene. British Library, Lon
don. 269
10.4. Inigo Jones. Setting for Florimene. Devonshire Collection,
Chatsworth. 271
10.5. Inigo Jones. Setting for Albion's Triumph. Devonshire Col
lection, Chatsworth. 271
12.1. Pietro Perugino. The Combat of Love and Chastity. Louvre,
Paris. (Photo: Musees Nationaux.) 295
12.2. Benvenuto Cellini. Salt-cellar. Kunsthistorisches Museum.
Vienna. 299
12.3. Giorgio Vasari. Saturn Castrating Uranus. Sala degli Ele-
menti, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. (Photo: Alinari.) 300
12.4. Rubens (?) after Titian. Allegory of Brescia. British Library,
London. (Photo: The Warburg Institute.) 301
12.5. Titian. The Rape of Europa. Isabella Stewart Gardner Mu
seum, Boston. 305
12.6. Giorgione. "La tempesta." Galleria dell' Accademia, Venice.
(Photo: Osvaldo Bohm.) 312
12.7. Giovanni Bellini. The Feast of the Gods. National Gallery
of Art, Washington, D. C. 314
12.8. Raphael. The School of Athens. Stanza della Segnatura,
Vatican, Rome. (Photo: Alinari.) 317
12.9. Andrea Mantegna. The Meeting of the Marchese Lodovico
Gonzaga and his Son Cardinal Francesco Gonzaga.
Camera degli Sposi, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua. (Photo:
Alinari.) 321
12.10. Andrea Mantegna. Ceiling fresco. Camera degli Sposi, Pa
lazzo Ducale, Mantua. (Photo: Alinari.) 322
12.11. Lorenzo Ghiberti. Noah after the Flood. Baptistery, Flor
ence. (Photo: Alinari.) 327
12.12. Sandro Botticelli. The Calumny of Apelles. Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence. (Photo: Alinari.) 332
12.13. Sandro Botticelli. Mars and Venus. National Gallery, Lon
don. (Photo: The Warburg Institute.) 333
14.1. Mauro Coducci and Pietro, Tullio, and Antonio Lombardo.
Palazzo Loredan (Vendramin-Calergi), Venice. (Photo:
author.) 356
14.2. Venetian School. Agnesina Badoer Giustinian. Widener
Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C. 357
14.3. Tullio Lombardo. Villa Giustinian, Roncade. (Photo: au
thor.) 360
14.4. Sebastiano Serlio (?). South Facade of the Villa Priuli, Tre-
List of Illustrations
ville. Woodcut. From S. DuRy, Oeuvres d'architecture
de Vincent Scamozzi (Leiden, 1713). 360
14.5. Sebastiano Serlio (?). North Facade of the Villa Priuli, Tre-
ville. (Photo: author.) 361
14.6. Jacopo Sansovino. Villa Garzoni, Pontecasale. (Photo: Ger
man Institute of Florence.) 361
14.7. Michele Sanmicheli. Villa Soranzo, La Soranza, Castel-
franco. (Photo: author.) 364
14.8. Michele Sanmicheli (?). Palazzo delle Trombe, Agugliaro.
(Photo: author.) 365
14.9. Michele Sanmicheli. Project for the Palazzo Grimani at the
Ca' del Duca, Venice. Museo Civico Correr, Venice. 366
14.10. Jacopo Sansovino and Andrea Palladio. S. Francesco della
Vigna, Venice. (Photo: C.I.S.A.: Vicenza.) 369
14.11. Andrea Palladio. Preliminary Sketch Project for Villa Bar
baro, Maser. (Photo: R.I.B.A.: London.) 371
14.12. Andrea Palladio. Plan of Villa Barbaro, Maser, of 1551-59.
Engraving. From Ottavio Bertotti Scamozzi, Le fabbriche
e i disegni di Andrea Palladio (Vicenza, 1776-83). 371
14.13. Girolamo Tomasoni. Map of Piombino, 1707. Private ar
chive, Veneto. (Photo: author.) 373
14.14. Andrea Palladio. Villa of Zorzon Cornaro, Piombino.
(Photo: C.I.S.A.: Vicenza.) 375
14.15. Andrea Palladio. Plan Project adapted for Villa Foscari,
Malcontenta. (Photo: R.I.B.A.: London.) 376
14.16. Vincenzo Scamozzi and others. Villa Contarini, Loreggia.
(Photo: author.) 378
14.17. Gianfrancesco Costa. Longhena's Villa Contarini at Mira
of 1616-20. Engraving. From Delle delicie del fiume
Brenta (Venice, circa 1747-50). 379
14.18. Baldassare Longhena. S. Maria della Salute, Venice. (Photo:
author.) 380
