Guido Rebecchini has passed me details of his newly-published book,
which may be of interest to members of this list:
Guido Rebecchini
Private Collectors in Mantua. 1500-1630
490 pp.; appendices; iconographic index; index of names and places.
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura
Via Lancellotti 18, 00186, Rome
Tel. 06-6880 6556 – Fax 06-6880 6640
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www.weeb.it/edistorialett
The book is concerned with private collections of art in Mantua recorded
during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Chapter 1 provides
the historical background for the subject, with an account of the
Gonzaga regime and its court, local artistic production and the
collecting taste of the rulers. Chapters 2-5 provide several
case-studies, mainly illustrative of collections formed during the
sixteenth century over several family generations. The collections of
the Maffei (ch. 2), Castiglione (ch. 3), Strozzi (ch. 4) and Calandra
(ch. 5) families contained masterpieces by artists such as Raphael,
Michelangelo, Titian, Correggio and Giulio Romano, as well as pieces of
classical sculpture and other precious objects. Chapter 6 focuses on a
substantial group of collections formed in the early seventeenth century
by people closely linked with Dukes Vincenzo and Ferdinando Gonzaga.
They include those recorded in the inventories of Marcello Donati, a
physician and a prominent counsellor; Camillo Capilupi and Tullio
Petrozzani, two important ambassadors and members of the court; the
treasurer Nicoḷ Avellani; and Annibale Chieppio, who was the most
powerful minister during the reign of Vincenzo Gonzaga. Chapter 7 deals
with a particular category of collectors: artists, including Andrea
Mantegna, Giulio Romano and Gabriele Bertazzolo. Chapter 8 provides
elements of comparison between Mantua and other Italian cities. Chapter
9 focuses on the display of works of art in private houses and provides
a quantitative analysis of the pictures and sculptures, as well as of
their iconography. The book is largely based upon primary sources such
as post-mortem inventories, many of which are transcribed in the
appendices.
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Rupert Shepherd
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Material Renaissance Project
Essex House
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN, UK
Tel. +44 (0)1273 872544
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http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren/
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