:The Florentine Academy and the Early Modern State: The Discipline of Disegno

Abstract

Part I. Culture and Politics: The Academy under the Medici Principate: 1. Cosimo I de' Medici and the foundation of the Compagnia ed Accademia del Disegno 2. The evolution of the Universit..., Compagnia, ed Accademia del Disegno from Francesco I to Cosimo II 3. Institutional reform of the Academy under Ferdinando II 4. The rise of an administrative class and the decline of the Academy as a Medici Institution under Cosimo III and Giangastone Part II. Discourses and Power: Disegno and Corporate Unity in the Formation of the Academy: 5. Disegno as a disciplinary practice: the Academy school 6. Fellowships of discourse: the Academy's confraternity and guild Postscript Reflections on the archive: the rule of the Academy Appendix Bibliography Index.