Renaissance Palace in Florence Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy - James R. Lindow
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Highlighting how classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence, this book offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace. Using unpublished inventories, private documents and surviving domestic objects, Lindow's groundbreaking study considers fifteenth-century palazzi as complete entities, demonstrating how magnificence extended beyond the exterior to the splendid interior where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed.
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signed copy !!! This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to private palaces, extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective, Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as compl...
