Author: Ferdinand Schevill
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Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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History of Florence from the Founding of the City Through the Renaissance
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Florence (Italy)
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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History of Florence, from the founding of the city through the
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
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Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
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Category : Renaissance
Languages : en
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The History of Florence in Painting
Author: Antonella Fenech Kroke
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0789211459
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A landmark, hardcover, slipcased volume that tells the story of the archetypal Renaissance city anew, through its art. Placed at the heart of Italy, Florence was already in the Middle Ages a center of commerce and fine craftsmanship. Spurred on by a few powerful dynasties of merchants and financiers—above all the Medici, but also the Strozzi, the Pitti, and others—the city became the leading force in the Renaissance of the arts, literature, and science. Challenging the primacy of the Venetian Republic and even the city of the Popes, Florence attained a glory that was reflected down through the later centuries of Medici rule. And Florence was all along a city of painters, who recorded its sights; the likenesses of its leaders and luminaries; its battles, civic myths, and patron saints; and, of course, the changing tastes of their Tuscan patrons. In this magnificent volume are assembled a wide variety of artworks, both familiar and rarely seen, that, interwoven with an authoritative text, illustrate the eventful history of Florence—from the age of Cimabue and Giotto, through the High Renaissance of Leonardo and Michelangelo, to the Mannerism of Vasari and Bronzino, and even to the era of modern travelers like Sargent and Degas. The History of Florence in Painting is a feast for the eyes and the intellect, and worthy companion to the previous volumes in this series, The History of Venice in Painting, The History of Paris in Painting, and The History of Rome in Painting.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0789211459
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A landmark, hardcover, slipcased volume that tells the story of the archetypal Renaissance city anew, through its art. Placed at the heart of Italy, Florence was already in the Middle Ages a center of commerce and fine craftsmanship. Spurred on by a few powerful dynasties of merchants and financiers—above all the Medici, but also the Strozzi, the Pitti, and others—the city became the leading force in the Renaissance of the arts, literature, and science. Challenging the primacy of the Venetian Republic and even the city of the Popes, Florence attained a glory that was reflected down through the later centuries of Medici rule. And Florence was all along a city of painters, who recorded its sights; the likenesses of its leaders and luminaries; its battles, civic myths, and patron saints; and, of course, the changing tastes of their Tuscan patrons. In this magnificent volume are assembled a wide variety of artworks, both familiar and rarely seen, that, interwoven with an authoritative text, illustrate the eventful history of Florence—from the age of Cimabue and Giotto, through the High Renaissance of Leonardo and Michelangelo, to the Mannerism of Vasari and Bronzino, and even to the era of modern travelers like Sargent and Degas. The History of Florence in Painting is a feast for the eyes and the intellect, and worthy companion to the previous volumes in this series, The History of Venice in Painting, The History of Paris in Painting, and The History of Rome in Painting.
History of Florence from the Founding of the City Through the Renaissance ... With Illustrations and Maps
Author: Ferdinand SCHEVILL
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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History of Florence from the Founding of the City Through the Rennaissance
Author: Ferdinand Schevill
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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The Florentine Histories
Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
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Category : Florence (History)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Publisher:
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Category : Florence (History)
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Renaissance Florence
Author: Roger J. Crum
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521846935
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521846935
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic
Author: Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755640128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755640128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeffrey Maxson reveals, it is above all the city-state – the walled commune which became the chief driver of European commerce, culture, banking and art – that is medieval Italy's enduring legacy to the present. Charting the transition of Florence from an obscure Guelph republic to a regional superpower in which the glittering court of Lorenzo the Magnificent became the pride and envy of the continent, the author authoritatively discusses a city that looked to the past for ideas even as it articulated a novel creativity. Uncovering passionate dispute and intrigue, Maxson sheds fresh light too on seminal events like the fiery end of oratorical firebrand Savonarola and Giuliano de' Medici's brutal murder by the rival Pazzi family. This book shows why Florence, harbinger and heartland of the Renaissance, is and has always been unique.
History of Florence from the Founding of the City Through the Renaissance, Etc
Author: Ferdinand SCHEVILL
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Images of Quattrocento Florence
Author: Stefano Ugo Baldassarri
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This anthology provides a panoramic view of fifteenth-century Florence in the words of the city's own citizens and visitors. The fifty-one selections offer glimpses into Renaissance thought. Together, the documents demonstrate the social, political, religious, and cultural impact Florence had in shaping the Italian and European Renaissance, and they reveal how Florence created, developed, and diffused the mythology of its own origins and glory. The documents point up the divergences in quattrocento accounts of the origins of Florence, and they reveal the importance of the city's economy, social life, and military success to the formation of its image. The book includes sources that elaborate on the city's accomplishments in literature and the visual arts, others that present major trends in Florentine religious life, and still others that attest to the acclaim and admiration that Florence evoked from foreign visitors. The editors also provide an informative introduction, a detailed chronology of fifteenth-century Italy, maps, photographs, an annotated bibliography, and a biographical sketch of the author of each document.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300080520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
This anthology provides a panoramic view of fifteenth-century Florence in the words of the city's own citizens and visitors. The fifty-one selections offer glimpses into Renaissance thought. Together, the documents demonstrate the social, political, religious, and cultural impact Florence had in shaping the Italian and European Renaissance, and they reveal how Florence created, developed, and diffused the mythology of its own origins and glory. The documents point up the divergences in quattrocento accounts of the origins of Florence, and they reveal the importance of the city's economy, social life, and military success to the formation of its image. The book includes sources that elaborate on the city's accomplishments in literature and the visual arts, others that present major trends in Florentine religious life, and still others that attest to the acclaim and admiration that Florence evoked from foreign visitors. The editors also provide an informative introduction, a detailed chronology of fifteenth-century Italy, maps, photographs, an annotated bibliography, and a biographical sketch of the author of each document.