Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility in pre-modern Italy. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines deep archival research with a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work breaks new ground by contextualizing the part played by social relationships and the arts in publicly affirming and displaying the prestige of the middling sorts, the cittadini, in early modern Venice.
Price: $179.00
Pages: 358
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Publication Date:
06 June 2024
ISBN: 9789004693463
Format: Hardcover
“...The book’s greatest strength, and what sets it apart from similar works, is the breadth of sources deployed to investigate cittadini networks and patronage. [...] Zanon presents a compelling case for the importance of studying cittadini social and patronage networks within the structure of early modern Venetian society. The book skilfully outlines how the «middle stratum of society» used artistic patronage to «legitimise its existence in the eyes of the patriciate and to distinguish and further elevate itself from the lower strata» (p. 6). As such, this book will be an invaluable resource for historians and students studying the cittadini of Venice and the social networks of the scuole grandi in particular.”
Zoe Farrell, University of Oxford, in: ARO, VIII, 2025, 1, URL: https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2025/1/cittadini-of-venice-zoe-farrell/
Zoe Farrell, University of Oxford, in: ARO, VIII, 2025, 1, URL: https://aro-isig.fbk.eu/issues/2025/1/cittadini-of-venice-zoe-farrell/
Giulia Zanon, Ph.D. (Leeds, 2020), is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. She is a social and cultural historian whose research uses interdisciplinary methodologies to examine early modern Mediterranean society.