"The argument presented here repositions what has been called the 'theory of magnificence' and places it firmly within a theological framework. From the early f

In this book, Irina Chernetsky examines how humanists, patrons, and artists promoted Florence as the reincarnation of the great cities of pagan and Christian an

For the affluent merchant class of fifteenth-century Florence, the education of future generations was a fundamental matter. Together with texts, images played

This volume explores the concept of magnificence as a social construction in seventeenth-century Europe. Although this period is often described as the ‘Age o

This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.