The Medici : portraits and politics, 1512-1570 / edited by Keith Christiansen and Carlo Falciani ; with contributions by Andrea Bayer, Elizabeth Cropper, Davide Gasparotto, Sefy Hendler, Antonella Fenech Kroke, Tommaso Mozzati, Elizabeth Pilliod, Julia Siemon, Linda Wolk-Simon
2021, 1st edition. New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #408592
Physical description; 327 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-318) and index. This catalogue is published in conjunction with "The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512-1570", on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, from June 26, 2021 through October 11, 2021--Colophon. Contents; Power and identity in sixteenth-century Florentine portraiture / Carlo Falciani -- Vernacular identities: the Academia Fiorentina and the poetics of portraiture / Elizabeth Cropper -- g Catalogue -- From republic to Duchy, 1512-32 / Carlo Falciani -- Politics, portraiture, and the Medici Popes, 1513-34 / Linda Wolk-Simon -- Cosimo I de' Medici: lineage, family, and dynastic ambitions / Elizabeth Pilliod -- A poetics of portraiture and the legacy of Dante and Petrarch / Julia Siemon -- Cosimo and the politics of culture: reinventing Florence as a cultural capital / Sefy Hendler -- Redecorating the Palazzo Vecchio / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Florence and Rome: Bronzino and Salviati / Carlo Falciani. Subjects; Medici, House of Art patronage ; Exhibitions. Medici, House of ; Portraits ; Exhibitions. Medici, House of. Art patronage -- Italy -- Florence -- History. Medici, House of -- Art collections. Portrait painting, Italian 16th century. Portrait painting, Italian. 1500-1599. Nobility Italy Florence ; Portraits ; Exhibitions. Art patronage. Nobility. Portrait painting, Italian. Portraits, Renaissance Italy Florence.
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