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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

By Markey , Lia

Book information

Publisher
The Pennsylvania State University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780271071152, 9780271078243, 0271078243
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
449 MB (470349143 bytes)
Pages
241\261
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Government publication

Description

The New World and Italy in the early sixteenth century -- A turkey in a Medici tapestry -- The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova -- Francesco's exchange and documentation of American nature -- The Stanzino and the representation of the New World -- Between ethnography and fantasy in Ferdinando's New World -- The Florentine Codex and Buti's frescoes of Amerindians -- Stradano's invention of the Americas -- The Americas both real and imagined.;"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"--Provided by publisher.

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