The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence

by By Cristina Acidini, Suzanne Butters, Marco Chiarini, Janet Cox-Rearick, Alan P.Darr, Larry J. Feinberg, Anna Maria Giusti, Richard Goldthwaite, Lucia Meoni, Christina Aschengreen Piacenti, Claudio Pizzorusso, Anna Maria Testaverde

• ISBN13: 9780300094954
• ISBN10: 0300094957
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2002-11-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Table of Contents

Lenders to the Exhibition
Foreword
The Medici and the Legacy of Michelangelo in Late Renaissance Florence: An Introduction	p. 1
Michelangelo and the Medici	p. 9
The Medici Grand-ducal Family and the Symbols of Power	p. 25
Art at the Court of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1537-1574)	p. 35
The Studiolo of Francesco I Reconsidered	p. 47
Ferdinando de' Medici and the Art of the Possible	p. 67
Cosimo II and Maria Maddalena of Austria	p. 77
Artisans and the Economy in Sixteenth-century Florence	p. 85
The Legacy of Michelangelo in the Grand-ducal Tapestry Workshops of Florence, from Cosimo I to Cosimo II	p. 95
The Origins and Splendors of the Grand-ducal Pietre Dure Workshops	p. 103
Galileo in the Garden: Observations on the Sculptural Furnishings of Florentine Gardens between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries	p. 113
Spectacle, Theater, and Propaganda at the Court of the Medici	p. 123
Note to Readers	p. 132
Catalog to the Exhibition	p. 133
Paintings	p. 134
Sculptures	p. 182
Decorative Arts	p. 244
Works on Paper	p. 288
Acknowledgments	p. 362
Bibliography	p. 364
Photograph Credits	p. 380
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