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Sassetta
The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece
Inbunden, 2009
1065 kr
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Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437–1444. Originally standing some six yards high, double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame over the main altar of the local Franciscan church, it was the …
Medici
Citizens and Masters
Häftad, 2015
360 kr
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The Medici controlled fifteenth-century Florence. Other Italian rulers treated Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449–1492) as an equal. To his close associates, he was “the boss” (“master of the workshop”). But Lorenzo liked to say that he was just another Florentine citizen. Were the Medici like the …
Food, Social Politics and the Order of Nature in Renaissance Italy
Häftad, 2020
272 kr
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The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cultural conventions. Food goes beyond issues relating to biological needs and nutrition or production and commerce; it also reveals social and cultural …
Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection
Inbunden, 2022
448 kr
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Persian Manuscripts & Paintings from the Berenson Collection presents an in-depth analysis of the little-known Persian manuscripts and paintings collected by the world-renowned art historian, art critic, and connoisseur Bernard Berenson (1865–1959). It focuses on three manuscripts and four detached …
Ulysses and the Limits of Dante’s Humanism / Ulisse o dei limiti dell’umanesimo dantesco
Av Lino Pertile
Häftad, 2023
146 kr
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In his description of Ulysses in Canto XXVI of the Inferno, Dante subjected the legendary Greek hero to a thoroughgoing revision. The Homeric Ulysses, after ten years of war and a further ten of fabulous adventures throughout the Mediterranean, returns home to Ithaca and resumes his position as …
Flesh and Fabric
The Raiment of the Passion in a Crucifixion by Pietro Lorenzetti
Häftad, 2024
316 kr
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Although the works of Pietro Lorenzetti (1280–1348) rank among the most famous of the fourteenth century, one of his panels, a small Crucifixion, has remained largely overlooked, despite its unique imagery. Combining three temporal horizons—past, present, and eschatological future—within an …
Ex-Voto for I Tatti
Caught by Uneasiness During a Serenade
Häftad, 2026
89 kr
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An accidental encounter with a slim unprepossessing book on ex-votos, taken at random from one of the shelves of the Berenson Library at I Tatti, leads memoirist and novelist Gina Alhadeff to a series of meditations on miracles, sudden appearances and just as sudden disappearances, and the way a …
Bernard Berenson
Formation and Heritage
Av Joseph Connors, Louis A. Waldman
Häftad, 2014
371 kr
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Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) put the connoisseurship of Renaissance art on a firm footing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His monument is the library and collection of Italian painting, Islamic miniatures, and Asian art at Villa I Tatti in Florence. The authors in this …
San Lorenzo
A Florentine Church
Av Robert W. Gaston, Louis A. Waldman
Inbunden, 2017
888 kr
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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo’s history, extending from its Early Christian foundation to the modern era. Brunelleschi’s rebuilt Basilica, the center of liturgical patronage of the Medici and their …
