The paper describes the interesting and widespread phenomenon of genealogic portraiture in Florence by analyzing the case of the Guadagni family and its series of portraits. The series was commissioned during the mid-Seventeenth century by senator Tommaso di Francesco and it was intended to decorate the family House behind the Nunziata thanks to the contributions of many artists. Both in terms of quantity and artistic quality, the Guadagni portrait series represents a precious testimony of this specific portraiture genre, which started during the middle of the sixteenth century and reached its climax during the following century. This genre saw its decline in the 1700s, when the aristocratic ancient families lost their importance, and their illustrious ancestors’ portraits became simple relics of a remote past.
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Titolo del capitolo
Arte, storia e prestigio. Per un’introduzione alla ‘ritrattistica genealogica’: la serie Guadagni di Firenze
Autori
Tommaso Prizzon
Lingua
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-181-5.04
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Anno di pubblicazione
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
Donum
Sottotitolo del libro
Studi di storia della pittura, della scultura e del collezionismo a Firenze dal Cinquecento al Settecento
Curatori
Marco Betti, Carlotta Paola Brovadan
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Numero di pagine
308
Anno di pubblicazione
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Editore
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-181-5
ISBN Print
978-88-5518-180-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-5518-181-5
Collana
Studi e saggi
ISSN della collana
2704-6478
e-ISSN della collana
2704-5919