11: Age of Cosimo I
Alessandro 1530-37
Fortezza da Basso 1534-37 Antonio da Sangallo the Younger
Imperial Garrison
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Cosimo I (1519-74)
Montemurlo: victory over exiles (fuorusciti)
Regional consolidation
1509 Pisa retaken (Soderini’s republican govt) (held by Florence 1404-94)
Old Palazzo Medici, Pisa
1557 Siena
Siena, Fortezza Medicea, 1560-61
1571 work begun on port development, Livorno
1570 Title “Grand Duke” conferred by papacy 1570
From Medici Palace to Pitti
Medici Palace
1539 marriage to Eleonora di Toledo
Bronzino, Eleonora, Uffizi
Cosimo and Eleonora move into Palazzo Vecchio
1550 Eleonora buys Pitti Palace
Boboli Gardens: Tribolo (d. 1558)
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Giusto Utens, Palazzo Pitti, ca 1600 |
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Palazzo Pitti |
Building complex:
1560 Uffizi (Giorgio Vasari); “Vasari Corridor”
1581 gallery: Francesco I
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Uffizi, Tribuna (begun 1581) and in 1772 (Johann Zoffany) |
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More Military architecture:
Fortezza del Belvedere. First sections by Michelangelo, rest ca 1590 Bernardo Buontalenti
Revivals of Culture
Major artistic projects
Letters, Learning, and the Arts:
University at Pisa; University of Siena after 1560
Major art commissions: Giorgio Vasari (1511-74)
Lives of the Artists 1550; 1568
Academies: a New Cultural Institution in Italy (and then across Europe_
1540 Academia Fiorentina
- Study of Florentine Culture
- “Three Crowns” Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
Torrentino Press
Accademia del Disegno
Accademia della Crusca