This book considers an important altarpiece Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saint Justus of Volterra and Saint Margaret of Antioch by the Tuscan master Sebastiano Mainardi (1466-1513). Mainardi's late works are exceptional in the history of Renaissance art because they are invested with a conscious artistic simplicity that amplifies the immediacy of their religious message. In this book, Alessio Assonitis investigates the history and iconography of the painting and situates it within an art historical context, while David Miller's study documents the extensive conservation treatment of the painting.

Bastiano Mainardi: Painter of Altarpieces in Renaissance Tuscany

Alessio Assonitis

David A. Miller

Arts & Photography

Indianapolis Museum of Art.

The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive offers a unique window into early modern Florentine society through an exploration of the archives of the Medici ruling family. Teeming with four and a half million letters, the archival collection of the Medici Grand Dukes housed at the Archivio di Stato in Florence chronicles the culture and history of Europe and beyond, for a span of over two hundred years. The letters of this collection, known as the Mediceo del Principato, embrace a great variety of themes including diplomacy, art, medicine, food, science, and material culture. Since its contents originate from a court archive that served both the state and a ruling family, the collection comprises administrative, political and financial correspondence as well as more private and intimate accounts of the Medici themselves and their activity at court. It would be a great misconception to assume that this enormous archival collection pertains just to Florence or to just the Medici, given that the vast majority of these missives were written by ambassadors, agents, and informants stationed throughout Europe. This volume, The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive, aims to unlock not only the complex structure of the Mediceo del Principato but also the richness of its content. The sixteen essays address a variety of topics---book history, Ottoman relations, collections of New World artifacts, medical history, gender studies, and material culture---all with direct reference to the Medici Grand Duchy. The original research that supports these studies was drawn in part from the Medici Archive Project's online platform (BIA) for querying over 350,000 digitized and/or transcribed letters. Making use of these and other original sources, the essays in The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive shed new light on the mechanisms and strategies that enabled Florence to emerge from decades of internecine conflict and diplomatic chaos in order to enjoy cultural and political prominence.

The Grand Ducal Medici and their Archive (1537-1743) (Medici Archive Project) (English and Italian Edition)

History

Europe

Brepols Publishers

A comprehensive and systematic overview of the life and career of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, a key Renaissance figure.

A Companion to Cosimo I de’ Medici (Renaissance Society of America: Text and Studies, 17)

University of Groningen

The Medici Archive Project Henk Th. Van Veen

Director

History & Criticism

BRILL

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