The Badia Fiesolana: Augustinian and academic locus amoenus in the Florentine Hills

ISBN-10
3643958080
ISBN-13
9783643958082
Category
Architecture, Renaissance
Pages
217
Language
English
Published
2016
Author
Angela Dressen

Description

The monastery of the Badia Fiesolana on the outskirts of Florence has often been seen as a secondary project of the Medici. However new research has shown that the family's involvement in its financial, cultural, intellectual, religious and artistic affairs is central to its development under Cosimo and Lorenzo de'Medici during the 15th century. In the remarkable setting of the Badia, where art and architectural structure was studied anew, erudite abbots encountered learned humanists. The proceedings of a conference held in 2013 shed new light on cultural and scholarly life in and around Florence. --

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