This book examines a Renaissance Florentine family's art patronage, even for women, inspired by literature, music, love, loss, and religion.

To whom should we ascribe the great flowering of the arts in Renaissance Italy? Artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo? Or wealthy, discerning patrons like Co

Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power surrounding the creation of the Medici family altarpiece, Stefanie Solum challenges the received wi

Louise Bourdua examines how Franciscan church decoration developed between 1250 and 1400 by focusing on three important churches. She argues that local Francisc

Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence examines the relationship between the production of objects and the production of memory and history in fifteenth