New Apelleses And New Apollos Av Diletta Gamberini

<P></P><P>This book breaks new ground by illuminating the key role of verse-writing as a cultural strategy on the part of Italian Renaissance artists. It does so by undertaking a wide-ranging study of poems by painters, sculptors, architects, and goldsmiths who were active in Florence under Cosimo I and Francesco I de¿ Medici ¿ a milieu in which many practitioners of the visual arts appropriated the literary medium to address issues related to their primary professions. </P><P>New Apelleses, and New Apollos intervenes in the burgeoning scholarly discourse on the intellectual life of artists in early modern Italy, revealing how poetry often provides fresh insights into art-theoretical debates, patronage questions, workshop cultures, issues of professional identity, and networks of personal relations. </P><P></P><P></P>