Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Magnificenza! The Medici, Michelangelo, and the art of late Renaissance Florence" held at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, June 6, 2002-Sept. 2002, Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003, and Detroit Institute of Arts, Mar. 16, 2003-June 8, 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-380).
Contents:
The Spectacle, theater, and propaganda at the court of the Medici / Anna Maria Testaverde. Michelangelo and the Medici / Cristina Acidini Luchinat -- The Medici grand-ducal family and the symbols of power / Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti -- Art at the Court of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici (1537-1574) / Janet Cox-Rearick -- The studiolo of Francesco I reconsidered / Larry J. Feinberg -- Ferdinando de' Medici and the art of the possible / Suzanne B. Butters -- Cosimo II and Maria Maddalena of Austria / Marco Chiarini -- Artisans and the economy in sixteenth-century Florence / Richard A. Goldthwaite -- The legacy of Michelangelo in the grand-ducal tapestry workshops of Florence, from Cosimo I to Cosimo II / Lucia Meoni -- The origins and splendors of the grand-ducal Pietre Dure workshops / Annamaria Giusti -- Galileo in the garden : observations on the sculptural furnishings of Florentine gardens between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Claudio Pizzorusso -- Spectacle, theater, and propaganda at the court of the Medici / Anna Maria Testaverde.
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