Successful merchants and Florence's most prominent patrons of the arts and sciences, the Medici family ruled the city from the fifteenth century until the mid-eighteenth century. This beautiful and authoritative book focuses on the glorious art produced during the height of the reign of the Medici dynasty. 
Eminent authorities tell us that under the grand dukes Cosimo I, his sons Francesco I and Ferdinando I, and his grandson Cosimo II, Florence experienced a great flowering of the arts. The Medici dukes gave commissions to artists such as Pontormo, Bronzino, Vasari, Giambologna, and, in particular, Michelangelo, whose work overshadowed much of the city's cultural and artistic life at this time. The Medici used the buildings and works of art that resulted from their patronage as a means to promote and reflect their political and cultural aspirations within their native city and throughout Europe. 
This handsome book will be the catalogue for the exhibition "Magnificenza!," opening in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi on June 6, 2002 that then moves to the Art Institute of Chicago (November 9, 2002 to February 2, 2003) and to the Detroit Institute of Arts (March 16, 2003 to June 8, 2003).

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

Arts & Photography

Marco Chiarini

Cristina Acidini Luchinat

Suzanne B. Butters

Janet Cox-Rearick

Alan P. Darr

Larry J. Feinberg

Annamaria Giusti

Richard A. Goldthwaite

Lucia Meoni

Kirsten Aschengreen Piacenti

Claudio Pizzorusso

Anna Maria Testaverde

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

One of the great treasures of Waddesdon Manor is the group of objects in gold, decorated with prec- ious or semi-precious stones and often with minia- tures or enamels. The most important of these is t he unrivalled series of exquisitely made French gold boxes,usually intended for snuff.

Gold Boxes and Miniatures of the Eighteenth Century : The James A. Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor,

Anthony Blunt

Serge Grandjean

Charles Truman

Unicorn Press

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