Leone Leoni and the status of the artist at the end of the Renaissance /

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Author / Creator:	Di Dio, Kelley Helmstutler.
Imprint:	Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
Description:	xvi, 250 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Visual culture in early modernity Visual culture in early modernity.
Subject:	Leoni, Leone, -- 1509-1590. Leoni, Leone, -- 1509-1590. Sculptors -- Italy -- Biography. Artists -- Italy -- Social conditions -- 16th century. Artists -- Social conditions. Sculptors. Italy. Biography.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8292041

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ISBN:	9780754662341 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0754662349 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight with a house and art collection envied by the nobility. Leoni's success as an artist and his social and intellectual achievements outdid those of any of his predecessors. Through extensive archival research, Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio sheds new light on Leoni's background and character, as well as on unknown aspects of his career, his social position in Milan, and the contents of his impressive art collection. Di Dio has collected and analyzed a sizeable body of unpublished material that, along with contemporary accounts, fleshes out Leoni's multiple roles as imperial sculptor, aristocrat, scholar, and criminal. She further examines the visual manifestations of these roles in his house, collection, and tomb, as well as Leoni's influence on artists in Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.

Eight years after being released from imprisonment on the papal galleys, Leone Leoni (1509-90) became the chief sculptor to Emperor Charles V, was granted a noble title, and began the building and decoration of the most impressive house ever owned by an artist up to that time. Based on archival documents and other contemporary sources, Leoni's fascinating biography and his achievements in sculpture are examined in terms of the contexts in which he lived. Excerpted from Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artists at the End of the Renaissance by Kelley Helmstutlerdio All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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