Author: Gene BruckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Renaissance Florence
Author: Gene BruckerThe Economy of Renaissance Florence
Author: Richard A. GoldthwaitePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421400596
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Winner, 2010 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize, the Renaissance Society of America2009 Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceHonorable Mention, Economics, 2009 PROSE Awards, Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers Richard A. Goldthwaite, a leading economic historian of the Italian Renaissance, has spent his career studying the Florentine economy. In this magisterial work, Goldthwaite brings together a lifetime of research and insight on the subject, clarifying and explaining the complex workings of Florence’s commercial, banking, and artisan sectors. Florence was one of the most industrialized cities in medieval Europe, thanks to its thriving textile industries. The importation of raw materials and the exportation of finished cloth necessitated the creation of commercial and banking practices that extended far beyond Florence’s boundaries. Part I situates Florence within this wider international context and describes the commercial and banking networks through which the city's merchant-bankers operated. Part II focuses on the urban economy of Florence itself, including various industries, merchants, artisans, and investors. It also evaluates the role of government in the economy, the relationship of the urban economy to the region, and the distribution of wealth throughout the society. While political, social, and cultural histories of Florence abound, none focuses solely on the economic history of the city. The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a comprehensive overview of its economic development from the late Middle Ages through the Renaissance to 1600.
The Family in Renaissance Florence
Author: Leon Battista AlbertiPublisher: Columbia : University of South Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
"I libri della famiglia has long been viewed by Italians as a classic of Italian literature. It displays a variety of styles--high rhetoric, systematic moral exposition, novelistic portrayal of character--in the typical Renaissance framework of the dialogue. The chief merit of the work lies in its scope: it directly assays the personal value system of the Florentine bourgeois class, which did so much to foster the development of art, literature, and science. This translation is based upon the critical edition by Cecil Grayson, Serena Professor of Italian Studies, Oxford."--Jacket.
Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence, 1300-1450
Author: Laurence B. KanterPublisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997254
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Italian
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
. By way of introduction to the objects themselves are three essays. The first, by Laurence B. Kanter, presents an overview of Florentine illumination between 1300 and 1450 and thumbnail sketches of the artists featured in this volume. The second essay, by Barbara Drake Boehm, focuses on the types of books illuminators helped to create. As most of them were liturgical, her contribution limns for the modern reader the medieval religious ceremonies in which the manuscripts were utilized. Carl Brandon Strehlke here publishes important new material about Fra Angelico's early years and patrons - the result of the author's recent archival research in Florence.
Renaissance Florence
Author: Roger J. CrumPublisher: 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.
Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence
Author: William J. ConnellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520232549
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Essays illustrate the ways Renaissance Florentines expressed or shaped their identities as they interacted with their society.
Art of Renaissance Florence, 1400-1600
Author: Loren W. PartridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and society
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
"Rich and engaging. This account of Florentine art tells the story of who commissioned these works, who made them, where they were seen, and how they were experienced and understood by their viewers. Includes a useful timeline, glossary, and series of artists' biographies."--Patricia L. Reilly, Swarthmore College "An extraordinarily useful book, not only for teachers, but also for historically minded travelers interested in an illustrated guide to the art of Renaissance Florence."--Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University "Clear and compelling. The well-chosen illustrations include ground plans and diagrams of key architectural monuments and sculpture. The updated, judicious bibliography is a resource for anyone tackling the vast scholarship on the art of Renaissance Florence."--Cristelle Baskins, editor of The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance
The Florentine Renaissance
Author: Vincent CroninPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 144646654X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Florence in the fifteenth century was the undisputed centre of the Italian Renaissance. Its legacy is apparent today in every aspect of human endeavour. Our art and science, our learning and literature, our Christianity and our civic liberties, even our conception of what constitutes a gentleman, have all been shaped by Florentine thought and deed. In this brilliant and absorbing book Vincent Cronin brings vividly to life the people and myriad achievements of this astonishingly fruitful epoch in human history.
The Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence
Author: Cristina AcidiniPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300094954
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
"Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.
Art of Renaissance Florence
Author: Scott NethersolePublisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781786273420
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this vivid account Scott Nethersole examines the remarkable period of cultural, artistic, and intellectual blossoming in Florence from 1400 to 1520—the period traditionally known as the Early and High Renaissance. He looks at the city and its art with fresh eyes, presenting the well-known within a wider context of cultural reference. Key works of art—from painting, sculpture, and architecture to illuminated manuscripts—by artists such as Michelangelo, Donatello, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi are showcased alongside the unexpected and less familiar.