The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family
The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family

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Publisher: Penn State Press

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Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780271044187

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The Spinelli Archive, acquired by the Beinecke Library of Yale University in 1988, constitutes one of the most important collections of original documents about a Renaissance family anywhere outside Italy. Philip Jacks and William Caferro draw upon these papers to tell the story of the Spinelli family's ascent to economic and social prominence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Letters and financial ledgers, many of them brought to light for the first time, provide an intimate portrait of daily life in Florence, from household affairs to the family's dealings in papal finance and cloth manufacture.

The Artist as Reader
The Artist as Reader

Author: Heiko Damm

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-12-07

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 9004242236

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Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves

Medici Gardens
Medici Gardens

Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2017-03-31

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1512821586

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Medici Gardens challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one client commissioned one architect or artist. The book suggests that in the case of the gardens in Florence garden making preceded its theoretical articulation.

Buying and Selling
Buying and Selling

Author: Shanti Graheli

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-02-11

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 9004340394

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Buying and Selling explores the many facets of the business of books across and beyond Europe, adopting the viewpoints of printers, publishers, booksellers, and readers. Essays by twenty-five scholars from a range of disciplines seek to reconstruct the dynamics of the trade through a variety of sources. Through the combined investigation of printed output, documentary evidence, provenance research, and epistolary networks, this volume trails the evolving relationship between readers and the book trade. In the resulting picture of failure and success, balanced precariously between debt-economies, sale strategies and uncertain profit, customers stand out as the real winners.

Emulating Antiquity
Emulating Antiquity

Author: David Hemsoll

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2019-11-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0300225768

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A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively illustrated volume explores how the understanding of the antique changed over the course of the Renaissance. David Hemsoll reveals the ways in which significant differences in imitative strategy distinguished the period's leading architects from each other and argues for a more nuanced understanding of the widely accepted trope--first articulated by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century--that Renaissance architecture evolved through a linear step-by-step assimilation of antiquity. Offering an in-depth examination of the complex, sometimes contradictory, and often contentious ways that Renaissance architects approached the antique, this meticulously researched study brings to life a cacophony of voices and opinions that have been lost in the simplified Vasarian narrative and presents a fresh and comprehensive account of Renaissance architecture in both Florence and Rome.

Florence & Tuscany
Florence & Tuscany

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Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0756615402

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Three-dimensional cutaway illustrations and floor plans of key landmarks complement these richly illustrated, fully updated travel handbooks that also include enhanced maps, street-by-street guides, background information on a host of popular sights, and an expanded traveler's survival guide providing tips on hotels, restaurants, local customs, transportation, medical services, museums, entertainment, and more.

Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century
Florentine Villas in the Fifteenth Century

Author: Amanda Lillie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-04-18

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 9780521770477

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In this book, which was originally published in 2005, Amanda Lillie challenges the urban bias in Renaissance art and architectural history by investigating the architecture and patronage strategies, particularly those of the Strozzi and the Sassetti clans, in the Florentine countryside during the fifteenth century. Based entirely on archival material that remained unpublished at the time of publication, her book examines a number of villas from this period and reconstructs the value systems that emerge from these sources, which defy the traditional, idealized interpretation of the 'renaissance villa'. Here, the house is studied in relation to the families who lived in them and to the land that surrounded them. The villa emerges as a functional, utilitarian farming unit upon whose success families depended, and where dynastic and patrimonial values could be nurtured.