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. Kent's...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©2004.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins symposia in comparative history ;
24th. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=249382 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the myth of Lorenzo
- The aesthetic education of Lorenzo
- The temptation to be magnificent, 1468-1484
- Lorenzo and the Florentine building boom, 1485-1492
- Lorenzo, "Fine husbandman," and Villa-Builder, 1483-1492.