Arts of power Book

	Photograph Credits
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
I	The Republican Regime of the Sala dei Nove in Siena, 1338-1340	9
	Siena mi fe'	13
	The Republic Faces Evil	19
	The Republic in Writing	28
	Writing Power	30
	Reading the Vernacular	33
	Latin Lessons	38
	The Republic in Pictures	46
	The Construction of a Republican Panorama	48
	Patterns of Practical Knowledge	52
	Mirrors for Magistrates	55
	The Regime Falls, the Pictures Remain	58
	Figures 1-33	61
II	Room for a Prince: The Camera Picta in Mantua, 1465-1474	81
	From Republics to Princely Regimes	86
	Walls as Mirrors and Windows for the Prince	90
	Bodies Politic	91
	"Little Things Matter in These Affairs of Princes"	99
	What's in a Name	105
	Intermezzo: The Flight of the Peacock	114
	Seeing Culture on the Ceiling of the Camera Picta	118
	The Glance	119
	The Measured View	123
	The Scan	126
	Mantegna and Momus	131
	Figures 34-59	135
III	Triumphalism: The Sala Grande in Florence and the 1565 Entry	149
	A Tale of Two Cities Triumphant: 1530 and 1565	152
	From Triumphs to Triumphalism	157
	Procession and Passage	162
	To the Victor Belong the Spoils	164
	The Program Triumphant	165
	A Triumph of Triumphalism in Florence	168
	The Parade	168
	The Persona of the Victor	178
	The Spoils	185
	Program and Production	189
	Duke Cosimo I	189
	The Programmer: Borghini	192
	The Quartermaster: Caccini	200
	The Artist as Impresario: Vasari	203
	Figures 60-128	213
	Epilogue: Arts of Power	257
	Appendix 1. Inscriptions in the Sala dei Nove	261
	Appendix 2. Entry Arches and Sala Grande: Diagram Legends	267
	Notes	305
	Index	367