La Badia Fiesolana. Pagine Di Storia E D'arte. [With Illustrations.].
Author: Vincenzo VITI
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Published: 1926
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The Badia Fiesolana
Author: Angela Dressen
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 3643908083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financial, cultural, intellectual, religious and artistic affairs is central to its development under Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici during the 15th century. In the remarkable setting of the Badia, where art and architectural structure was studied anew, erudite abbots encountered learned humanists. The proceedings of a conference held in 2013 shed new light on cultural and scholarly life in and around Florence. Angela Dressen is Andrew W. Mellon Librarian at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Klaus Pietschmann is Professor for Musicology at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz.
The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family
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Publisher: Penn State Press
Published:
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780271044187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Medici Gardens
Author: Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-03-31
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1512821586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedici 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.
The Artist as Reader
Author: Heiko Damm
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-12-07
Total Pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9004242236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased 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
Emulating Antiquity
Author: David Hemsoll
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-11-05
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0300225768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
La Badia Fiesolana
Author: Franco Borsi
Publisher:
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreparatory Architectural Investigation in the Restoration of Historical Buildings
Author: Krista de Jonge
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9789058672506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenaissance Siena
Author: A. Lawrence Jenkens
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2005-07-25
Total Pages: 1071
ISBN-13: 1935503685
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe art of Renaissance Siena is usually viewed in the light of developments and accomplishments achieved elsewhere, but Sienese artists were part of a dynamic dialogue that was shaped by their city’s internal political turmoil, diplomatic relationships with its neighbors, internal social hierarchies, and struggle for self-definition. These essays lead scholars in a new and exciting direction in the study of the art of Renaissance Siena, exploring the cultural dynamics of the city and its art in a specifically Sienese context. This volume shapes a new understanding of Sienese culture in the early modern period and defines the questions scholars will continue to ask for years to come. What emerges is a picture of Renaissance Siena as a city focused on meeting the challenges of the time while formulating changes to shape its future. Central to these changes are the city’s efforts to fashion a civic identity through the visual arts.
