Map of Siena

Nevola, Fabrizio

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Map of Siena

Fabrizio Nevola

Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City

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Fabrizio Nevola

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00112.002

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19418

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BOOKSiena: Constructing the Renaissance City

Fabrizio Nevola

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00112

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-19416

Siena, one of the major artistic centers of medieval and Renaissance Italy, is renowned for its striking architecture and its beauty as a city. This book is the first to focus on Sienese architectural and urban history during the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Fabrizio Nevola offers a comprehensive picture of the city, describing in detail how the layout and appearance of Siena changed between 1400 and 1520, as political and social events triggered a variety of initiatives that transformed the city’s urban core.

Weaving together social, political, economic, and architectural history, the book explores the role of key patrons in Siena’s urban projects, including Pope Pius II Piccolomini and his family and, later, the quasi-despot Pandolfo Petrucci, “The Magnificent.” Nevola also considers how the government used architecture to forge a local identity and establish authority, the influence of important architects and architectural theorists, and the way that ritual events contributed in special ways to the changing face of the city. Enhanced with historic and more recent photographs, the book offers a fresh and engaging account of Siena’s unique architectural achievements.

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Author

Fabrizio Nevola

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date January 2008 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300126785

EISBN 9780300252118

Illustrations 266

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