Changing Patrons

Jill Burke is AHRB Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Art History Department, University of Edinburgh. In 2000–2001, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

• Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Transcriptions and Translations Abbreviations Introduction Part I: Families, Neighbors, and Friends 1.Family Self-Fashioning 2.Private Wealth and Public Benefit: The Nasi and Del Pugliese Palaces 3.Family, Church, Community: The Appearance of Power in Santo Spirito 4.Patronage and the Art of Friendship: Piero del Pugliese's Patronage of Filippino Lippi Part II: The Individual, the Family, and the Church 5.Patronage Rights and Wrongs: Building Identity at Santa Maria a Lecceto 6.Framing Patronage: Beauty and Order at the Church of the Innocenti 7.Differing Visions: Image and Audience in the Florentine Church Part III: Identity and Change 8.Painted Prayers: Savonarola and the Audience of Images Conclusions and Questions Appendix Nasi Family Tree Del Pugliese Family Tree Unpublished DocumentsPoems Written About the Portrait of Piero del Pugliese by Filippino Lippi Notes Bibliography Index

“No one writing about Florentine and Italian art history will be able to ignore this elegant and probing book.”—F.W. Kent, Director, Monash University at Prato