Power and display in the seventeenth century : the arts and their patrons in Modena and Ferrara

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Power and display in the seventeenth century : the arts and their patrons in Modena and Ferrara

Janet Southorn

(Cambridge studies in the history of art / edited by Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny)

Cambridge University Press, 1988

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Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)

Bibliography: p. 182-188

Includes index

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A study of the changing attitudes towards art and artists in two major north Italian cities following the enforced departure of the Este family from their traditional seat in Ferrara. An assessment is given of the effects of patronage on the careers of local artists such as Guercino.

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