An Art Lover's Guide to Florence / / Judith Testa.

No city but Florence contains such an intense concentration of art produced in such a short span of time. The sheer number and proximity of works of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Florence can be so overwhelming that Florentine hospitals treat hundreds of visitors each year for symptoms br...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
©2011
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (306 p.) :; 35 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Historical Background
  • CHAPTER 2 The Cathedral of Florence
  • CHAPTER 3 The Cathedral Baptistery
  • CHAPTER 4 The Brancacci Chapel in S. Maria del Carmine
  • CHAPTER 5 The Piazza della Signoria
  • CHAPTER 6 Orsanmichele
  • CHAPTER 7 The Ospedale degli Innocenti
  • CHAPTER 8 The Monastery of San Marco
  • CHAPTER 9 The Medici Palace and Its Chapel
  • CHAPTER 10 A Man, a Plan, a Palazzo
  • CHAPTER 11 The Sassetti Chapel in S. Trinita
  • CHAPTER 12 The Tornabuoni Chapel in S. Maria Novella
  • CHAPTER 13 The Museo degli Uffizi
  • CHAPTER 14 The Museo Nazionale del Bargello
  • CHAPTER 15 II Gigante
  • CHAPTER 16 Michelangelo's Medici Chapel
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Selected Bibliography