基本信息: 作者: Lia Markey ISBN13: 9780271071152 类型: 精装(精装书) 语种: 英语(English) 出版日期: 2016-08-24 出版社: Penn State University Press 页数: 264 重量(克): 1360 尺寸: 25.908 x 23.622 x 2.54 cm 内容简介: Studies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. 书评与摘要
The first full-length study of the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence demonstrates that the Medici grand dukes of Florence were not only great patrons of artists but also early conservators of American culture.
In collecting New World objects such as featherwork, codices, turquoise, and live plants and animals, the Medici grand dukes undertook a "vicarious conquest" of the Americas. As a result of their efforts, Renaissance Florence boasted one of the largest collections of objects from the New World as well as representations of the Americas in a variety of media. Through a close examination of archival sources, including inventories and Medici letters, Lia Markey uncovers the provenance, history, and meaning of goods from and images of the Americas in Medici collections, and she shows how these novelties were incorporated into the culture of the Florentine court.
More than just a study of the discoveries themselves, this volume is a vivid exploration of the New World as it existed in the minds of the Medici and their contemporaries. Scholars of Italian and American art history will especially welcome and benefit from Markey's insight.
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