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The Villas Of Lucca

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Gilberto Bedini

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The Villas Of Lucca

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Gilberto Bedini

Not only a photographic revelation of the residential treasures of Lucca, but an exploration of the artistic and cultural heritage of the region.

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192074472X

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9781920744724

Art of the Royal Court

Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

By: Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Art of the Royal Court

Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

By: Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

In the royal and princely courts of Europe, artworks made of multicolored semiprecious stones were passionately coveted objects. Known as pietre dure, or hardstones, this type of artistic expression includes?paintings in stone,? which were composed of intricately cut separate pieces that were made into magnificent tabetops, cabinets, and wall decorations. Other works included vessels and ornaments carved with virtuosic skill from a single piece of rare and brilliant lapis lazuli, chalcedony, jasper, or similarly prized substance; exquisite objects such as boxes, clocks, and jewelry; and portraits of nobles sculpted in variously colored stones. Derived from ancient Roman decorative stonework, the art of pietre dure was developed in Renaissance Florence, where the manufacture of such objects was enthusiastically sponsored by Medici princes. Ideally suited for ostentatious display, the works sent an unmistakable message of wealth and political might that was understood in centers of power everywhere. From Italy the medium spread across Europeto Prague, Madrid, Naples, Paris, and later Saint Petersburg. Precious and fragile, pietre dure objects are rarely brought together in large numbers. This richly illustrated catalogue contains more than 150 masterworks from across Europe, dating from five centuries, including almost every artistic use of semiprecious stone during this time as well as some of the finest examples of the medium. Eight essays by European and American experts discuss the individualized development of pietre dure in every European region, the latest developments in scholarship, the interrelationships between art and dynastic politics and between cultures, and a variety of techniques used to produce these luxurious masterworks."--Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588392880

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9781588392886

Artistic Table Settings

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat

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Artistic Table Settings

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat

A new perspective on the art of table setting.

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196

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Images Publishing

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8888033580

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9788888033587

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

By: Cristina Acidini,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).,Detroit Institute of Arts,Art institute (Chicago, Ill.).,Marco Chiarini

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

By: Cristina Acidini,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).,Detroit Institute of Arts,Art institute (Chicago, Ill.).,Marco Chiarini

Publisdhed in conjuntion with the exhibition: Magnificenza! the Medici, Michelangelo, & the Art of Late Renaissance Florence (In Italy, L'Ombra del genio: Michelangelo e l'arte a Firenze, 1538-1631) ..."--Title page verso.

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Yale University Press

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0300094957

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9780300094954

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany

Medicine and Botany

By: Cristina Bellorini

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The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany

Medicine and Botany

By: Cristina Bellorini

In the sixteenth century medicinal plants, which until then had been the monopoly of apothecaries, became a major topic of investigation in the medical faculties of Italian universities, where they were observed, transplanted, and grown by learned physicians both in the wild and in the newly founded botanical gardens. Tuscany was one of the main European centres in this new field of inquiry, thanks largely to the Medici Grand Dukes, who patronised and sustained research and teaching, whilst also taking a significant personal interest in plants and medicine. This is the first major reconstruction of this new world of plants in sixteenth-century Tuscany. Focusing primarily on the medical use of plants, this book also shows how plants, while maintaining their importance in therapy, began to be considered and studied for themselves, and how this new understanding prepared the groundwork for the science of botany. More broadly this study explores how the New World's flora impacted on existing botanical knowledge and how this led to the first attempts at taxonomy.

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260

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Routledge

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131701149X

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9781317011491

Grotesques

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat

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Grotesques

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat

The Uffizi Gallery is one of the world¿s most famous museums, and is home to some of the finest works of art in Western history, but it is not only the walls that are adorned with art. This volume explores the stunning frescoes or ¿grotesques¿ painted on the ceilings of the Uffizi.

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Taylor & Francis

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8809015746

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9788809015746

Art of the Royal Court

Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

By: Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Art of the Royal Court

Treasures in Pietre Dure from the Palaces of Europe

By: Wolfram Koeppe,Anna Maria Giusti,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Detroit Institute of Arts

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By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Detroit Institute of Arts

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0895581582

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9780895581587

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

By: Cristina Acidini,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).,Detroit Institute of Arts,Art institute (Chicago, Ill.).,Marco Chiarini

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

By: Cristina Acidini,Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Palazzo Strozzi,Art Institute of Chicago,Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italie).,Detroit Institute of Arts,Art institute (Chicago, Ill.).,Marco Chiarini

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Yale University Press

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The Villas Of Lucca

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Gilberto Bedini

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By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Gilberto Bedini

Not only a photographic revelation of the residential treasures of Lucca, but an exploration of the artistic and cultural heritage of the region.

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Continuum

The Art of Daniel Graves

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Gregory Hedberg

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The Art of Daniel Graves

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat,Gregory Hedberg

The catalogue of the exhibition held from the 2nd to the 28th of February at the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence gathers about thirty works of the artist, from drawings to paintings. Graves was born in 1949 in Rochester, New York, and was formed between the United States and Florence. He created a style of oil painting that marries the Florentine tradition of Nerina Simi and Pietro Annigoni with the graphic art of the French artist Charles Bargue.

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Cataloghi Dell'accademia Delle

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8859619459

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9788859619451

Florence Through Renaissance Eyes

By: Cristina Acidini,Elena Gurrieri

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Florence Through Renaissance Eyes

By: Cristina Acidini,Elena Gurrieri

This book is the ideal companion to discover the ancient heart of Florence through the eyes of an exceptional witness: Marco di Bartolomeo Rustici (1392/93-1457), goldsmith and humanist, author of an extraordinary Codex that takes his name. In the Codex, Rustici describes and depicts religious and secular elements of the historic center of Florence around 1450. At the time, the city's medieval urban fabric was being enriched with grandiose Renaissance monuments designed by Filippo Brunelleschi and other famous architects and commissioned by the institutions in power. Rustici's unique and personal journey will take you to the great Christian temples, such as the Baptistery and the Duomo, but also to the ancient and smaller churches that disappeared with urban renewal projects in the city of the 19th century. Rustici's accurate watercolor drawings are shown here alongside their contemporary correspondents in today's Florence. It is an astonishing sequence of similarities and differences that encapsulate the most intimate identity of Florence: a city that holds on tenaciously to its own memory, one that keeps changing while remaining true to itself.

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128

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Casa Editrice Leo S. Olschki

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8822267621

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9788822267627

Botticelli

Bildnis, Mythos, Andacht

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat

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Botticelli

Bildnis, Mythos, Andacht

By: Cristina Acidini Luchinat

This publication provides the reader with impressive insight into Botticelli's important contributions to Florentine art, and also traces the ideals of feminine beauty, embodied not only by his enchanting goddesses and Madonnas, but also in the idealized portrait of an unknown lady.

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377572480X

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9783775724807

Book's by Cristina Acidini

The Villas Of Lucca

The Villas Of Lucca

Art of the Royal Court

Art of the Royal Court

Artistic Table Settings

Artistic Table Settings

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

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

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany

The World of Plants in Renaissance Tuscany

Grotesques

Grotesques

Art of the Royal Court

Art of the Royal Court

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

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

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

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

The Villas Of Lucca

The Villas Of Lucca

Continuum

Continuum

Florence Through Renaissance Eyes

Florence Through Renaissance Eyes

Botticelli

Botticelli

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