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Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence / Lia Markey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 241 pages) : illustrations (some colorContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271078243
  • 0271078243
  • 0271078227
  • 9780271078229
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence.DDC classification:
  • 704.9/4997 23
LOC classification:
  • N5273.2.M43 M37 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
The New World and Italy in the early sixteenth century -- A turkey in a Medici tapestry -- The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova -- Francesco's exchange and documentation of American nature -- The Stanzino and the representation of the New World -- Between ethnography and fantasy in Ferdinando's New World -- The Florentine Codex and Buti's frescoes of Amerindians -- Stradano's invention of the Americas -- The Americas both real and imagined.
Summary: "Studies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.
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"Studies the impact of the discovery of the Americas on Italian Renaissance art and culture, focusing on the Medici engagement with the New World and its effects on collecting and art production in Florence during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-225) and index.

The New World and Italy in the early sixteenth century -- A turkey in a Medici tapestry -- The Americas in the Guardaroba Nuova -- Francesco's exchange and documentation of American nature -- The Stanzino and the representation of the New World -- Between ethnography and fantasy in Ferdinando's New World -- The Florentine Codex and Buti's frescoes of Amerindians -- Stradano's invention of the Americas -- The Americas both real and imagined.

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