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Author: Francesco Gurrieri Publisher: ISBN: 9781860641404 Category : Florence (Italy) Languages : en Pages : 312
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This text surveys 30 of the most beautiful buildings in Florence, and looks at the history behind them, with photographs of both interiors and exteriors.
Author: Francesco Gurrieri Publisher: ISBN: 9781860641404 Category : Florence (Italy) Languages : en Pages : 312
Book Description
This text surveys 30 of the most beautiful buildings in Florence, and looks at the history behind them, with photographs of both interiors and exteriors.
Author: JamesR. Lindow Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351541064 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 286
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This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to private palaces, extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective, Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as complete entities, from the exterior through to the interior. This book highlights the ways in which classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence. Using unpublished inventories, private documents and surviving domestic objects, The Renaissance Palace in Florence offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace.
Author: Benozzo (di Lese) Publisher: Thames & Hudson ISBN: 9780500236918 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 387
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The Medici family chapel is a jewel-like room and, despite changes that have been made to it over the years, it houses the best preserved of Renaissance fresco cycles
Author: Richard Stapleford Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 027105641X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 231
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"An inventory of the private possessions of Lorenzo il Magnifico de' Medici, head of the ruling Medici family during the apogee of the Florentine Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Jacqueline Marie Musacchio Publisher: ISBN: 9780300095630 Category : Families Languages : en Pages : 0
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This illustrated book explores the social and economical background to marriage in Renaissance Florence and discusses the objects such as paintings, sculptures, furniture, jewellery, clothing, and household items associated with marriage and ongoing family life.
Author: Patrizia Fabbri Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 202
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James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story—although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries—is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the nation's first political parties (the Republicans, who became today's Democrats), and taking to the battlefield during the War of 1812, becoming the last president to lead troops in combat. In this penetrating biography, eminent historian Richard Brookhiser presents a vivid portrait of the "Father of the Constitution," an accomplished yet humble statesman who nourished Americans' fledgling liberty and vigorously defended the laws that have preserved it to this day.
Author: Eleonora Pecchioli Publisher: ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 268
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This is the first book published in forty years featuring the painted façades of Florentine palaces. A topic of enormous interest since Florence is one of the most visited and admired cities in the world. The Painted Facades of Florence XV to XIX Centuries is the result of thorough research revealing that the historical circumstances that lead local families to decorate the façades of their residences, as well as providing a description of the various decorative techniques. Lavishly illustrated in colour, this volume includes a significant amount of previously unpublished photographic archival material. Most of the new photographs were especially commissioned. An important book not only for architects, art historians and decorative arts specialists, but for all those who have visited and loved Florence. 227 colour & 21 b/w illustrations
Author: Allison Levy Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786725711 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 466
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A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai. When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the palazzo of her dreams – the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence – she finds herself consumed by the space and swept into the vortex of its history. She spends every waking moment in dusty Florentine libraries, exploring the palazzo's myriad rooms seeking to uncover its secrets. As she unearths the stories of those who have lived behind its celebrated façade, she discovers that it has been witness to weddings, suicides, orgies, the dissection of a 'monster', and even a murder. Entwining Levy's own experiences with the ghosts of the Palazzo Rucellai's past, House of Secrets paints a scintillating portrait of a family, a palace and one of the most iconic cities in the world.
Author: Massimo Listri Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 278
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Italy boasts a rich cultural history that has found its expression in beautiful, powerful architectural forms, at times measured and hidden, at times ostentatious and triumphant. This volume focuses on about thirty residential villas and palaces, giving the reader the opportunity to visit the magnificent palaces of Venice, Genoa, and Mantua, the elegant villas designed by Palladio and decorated by Tiepolo; the country villas of Tuscany, hidden in olive groves and vineyards; and the austere palaces of Florence-not to mention the Versaces' villa on Lake Como. The interiors of these palaces are magnificent to behold: splendid tapestries, exquisite paintings and murals, sumptuous furniture and interior decoration of all kinds, from elegant carved molding to magnificently inlaid and tiled floors to beautiful renaissance, baroque, and neoclassical furniture.
Author: Charles Burroughs Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521109734 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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The architectural facade -- a crucial and ubiquitous element of traditional cityscapes -- addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying or dissembling interior arrangements. Burroughs traces the development of the Italian Renaissance palace facade as a cultural, architectural and spatial phenomenon, and as a new way of setting a limit to and defining a private sphere. He draws on literary evidence and analyses of significant Renaissance buildings, noting the paucity of explicit discussion of the theme in an era of extensive architectural publishing.
Author: Francesco Gurrieri
Author: Francesco Gurrieri
Author: JamesR. Lindow
Author: Benozzo (di Lese)
Author: Richard Stapleford
Author: Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Author: Patrizia Fabbri
Author: Eleonora Pecchioli
Author: Allison Levy
Author: Massimo Listri
Author: Charles Burroughs