King of the Renaissance: Art and Politics at the Neapolitan Court of Ferrante I, 1458-1494

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dc.contributor.advisorGill, Meredith J.en_US
dc.contributor.authorRiesenberger, Nicole Joyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArt History and Archaeologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:53:13Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:53:13Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractIn the second half of the fifteenth century, King Ferrante I of Naples (r. 1458-1494) dominated the political and cultural life of the Mediterranean world. His court was home to artists, writers, musicians, and ambassadors from England to Egypt and everywhere in between. Yet, despite its historical importance, Ferrante’s court has been neglected in the scholarship. This dissertation provides a long-overdue analysis of Ferrante’s artistic patronage and attempts to explicate the king’s specific role in the process of art production at the Neapolitan court, as well as the experiences of artists employed therein. By situating Ferrante and the material culture of his court within the broader discourse of Early Modern art history for the first time, my project broadens our understanding of the function of art in Early Modern Europe. I demonstrate that, contrary to traditional assumptions, King Ferrante was a sophisticated patron of the visual arts whose political circumstances and shifting alliances were the most influential factors contributing to his artistic patronage. Unlike his father, Alfonso the Magnanimous, whose court was dominated by artists and courtiers from Spain, France, and elsewhere, Ferrante differentiated himself as a truly Neapolitan king. Yet Ferrante’s court was by no means provincial. His residence, the Castel Nuovo in Naples, became the physical embodiment of his commercial and political network, revealing the accretion of local and foreign visual vocabularies that characterizes Neapolitan visual culture.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2QN3V
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18255
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArt historyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledArten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCourtsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledKingshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledNaplesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPatronageen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPoliticsen_US
dc.titleKing of the Renaissance: Art and Politics at the Neapolitan Court of Ferrante I, 1458-1494en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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