Female Patronage of Art and Architecture, Renaissance Italy
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The story of Anna as a childless woman in the second-century Protevangelion, the outbreak of Iconoclasm and the need to support the dogma of Incarnation, the growing number of Marian homilies dating from the eighth and ninth centuries on... more
L’articolo si prefigge di gettare nuova luce sul profilo pubblico di Vittoria Colonna attraverso un duplice percorso di indagine. In primo luogo si procede alla ricognizione delle vicende correlate all’attività di governo sia dei feudi... more
Sister Domenica da Paradiso founded La Crocetta, a Dominican-affiliated convent, in Florence in 1511. The architecture reflected Girolamo Savonarola's focus on simplicity in his imagined but never built convent. The convent also provided... more
Volume Editors: Virginia Cox & Shannon McHugh Series: Gendering the Late Medieval & Early Modern World Publisher: Amsterdam University Press This edited collection presents fresh and original work on Vittoria Colonna, perhaps the... more
"Todo parece indicar que el diseño para la tumba de Carlos de Aragón y Navarra elaborado en el medio artístico napolitano de mediados del Quinientos para el Pilar de Zaragoza no era un simple bosquejo, sino que se trataba de una muestra... more
The bicentenary of the birth of the Swiss scholar, Jacob Burckhardt (25 May 1818 - 8 August 1897), author of "The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" (1860), seems an appropriate moment at which take stock and consider whether or... more
Announcement of a conference to be held by the Medici Archive Project in Florence on 21 April 2017
Book presentation of Tamar Herzig. A Convert's Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
"Este artículo presenta un diseño localizado en el Archivo Capitular del Pilar de Zaragoza que, fechado en 1550, recoge el proyecto para la elevación del monumento funerario de Carlos de Aragón y Navarra en la capilla de San Braulio de... more