Mary Hollingsworth

The Medici

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Having founded the bank that became the most powerful in Europe in the fifteenth century, the Medici gained political power in Florence, raising the city to a peak of cultural achievement and becoming its hereditary dukes. Among their number were no fewer than three popes and a powerful and influential queen of France. Their patronage brought about an explosion of Florentine art and architecture. Michelangelo, Donatello, Fra Angelico and Leonardo are among the artists with whom they were associated. Thus runs the 'received view' of the Medici. Mary Hollingsworth argues that the idea that they were wise rulers and enlightened fathers of the Re… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78669-151-4
EAN: 9781786691514
Produktnummer: 24227343
Verlag: Head of Zeus
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 480 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 87'702 KB

Über den Autor

Mary Hollingsworth is a scholar of the Italian Renaissance, and author of The Cardinal's Hat, The Borgias: History's Most Notorious Dynasty and Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century.