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Category : Christian art and symbolism
Languages : en
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Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788879700627
Category : Cathedrals
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
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Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze: La cattedrale come spazio sacro (2 v.)
Author: Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze: La cattedrale e la città (2 v.)
Author: La cattedrale e la città
Author: Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze
Author: Timothy VerdonPublisher:
ISBN: 9788879700627
Category : Cathedrals
Languages : en
Pages : 1830
Book Description
Atti del VII centenario del Duomo di Firenze
Author: Timothy VerdonPublisher:
ISBN: 9788879700627
Category : Cathedrals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Atti Del VII Centenario Del Duomo Di Firenze
Author: Timothy VerdonLa cattedrale come spazio sacro
Author: Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante
Author: George W. DameronPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812201736
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
By the early fourteenth century, the city of Florence had emerged as an economic power in Tuscany, surpassing even Siena, which had previously been the banking center of the region. In the space of fifty years, during the lifetime of Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Florence had transformed itself from a political and economic backwater—scarcely keeping pace with its Tuscan neighbors—to one of the richest and most influential places on the continent. While many historians have focused on the role of the city's bankers and merchants in achieving these rapid transformations, in Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante, George W. Dameron emphasizes the place of ecclesiastical institutions, communities, and religious traditions. While by no means the only factors to explain Florentine ascension, no account of this period is complete without considering the contributions of the institutional church. In Florence, economic realities and spiritual yearnings intersected in mysterious ways. A busy grain market on a site where a church once stood, for instance, remained a sacred place where many gathered to sing and pray before a painted image of the Virgin Mary, as well as to conduct business. At the same time, religious communities contributed directly to the economic development of the diocese in the areas of food production, fiscal affairs, and urban development, while they also provided institutional leadership and spiritual guidance during a time of profound uncertainty. Addressing such issues as systems of patronage and jurisdictional rights, Dameron portrays the working of the rural and urban church in all of its complexity. Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante fills a major gap in scholarship and will be of particular interest to medievalists, church historians, and Italianists.
Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence
Author: F. W. KentPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801892015
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In the past half century scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), called "the Magnificent," as a patron of the arts. Less wealthy than his grandfather Cosimo, the argument goes, Lorenzo was far more interested in collecting ancient objects of art than in commissioning contemporary art or architecture. His earlier reputation as a patron was said to be largely a construct of humanist exaggeration and partisan deference. Although some recent studies have taken issue with this view, no synthesis of Lorenzo as art patron and art lover has yet emerged. In Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence historian F. W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting, and building—especially in the context of his role as the political boss (maestro della bottega) of republican Florence and a leading player in Renaissance Italian diplomacy. As a result of this approach, which pays careful attention to the events of his short but dramatic life, a radically new chronology of Lorenzo's activities as an art patron emerges, revealing them to have been more extensive and creative than previously thought. Kent's Lorenzo was broadly interested in the arts and supported efforts to beautify Florence and the many Medici lands and palaces. His expertise was well regarded by guildsmen and artists, who often turned to him for advice as well as for patronage. Lorenzo himself was educated in the arts by such men, and Kent explores his aesthetic education and taste, taking into account what is known of Lorenzo's patronage of music and manuscripts, and of his own creative work as a major Quattrocento poet. Richly illustrated with photographs of Medici landmarks by Ralph Lieberman, Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence offers a masterful portrait of Lorenzo as a man whose achievements might have rivaled his grandfather's had he not died so young.