Author: Alice Maria DouganPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Art Index
Author: Alice Maria DouganPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Handbook of Latin American Studies
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
British Humanities Index
Author: The Architect
Author: New Treasures of the Past
Author: Brian M. FaganPublisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
After discussing new methods in archaeological research, the author gives an account of recent discoveries.
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence
Author: Lia MarkeyPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271078227
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture. In collecting New World objects such as featherwork, codices, turquoise, and live plants and animals, the Medici grand dukes undertook a “vicarious conquest” of the Americas. As a result of their efforts, Renaissance Florence boasted one of the largest collections of objects from the New World as well as representations of the Americas in a variety of media. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court. More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries. Scholars of Italian and American art history will especially welcome and benefit from Markey’s insight.
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