The Renaissance Palace in Florence : Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy - Jamesr Lindow

The Renaissance Palace in Florence

Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy

By: Jamesr Lindow

Hardcover | 14 June 2007

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This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to private palaces, extended beyond the exterior to include the interior as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure could and should be displayed. Examining the fifteenth-century Florentine palazzo from a new perspective, Lindow's groundbreaking study considers these buildings comprehensively as complete entities, from the exterior through to the interior. This book highlights the ways in which classical theory and Renaissance practice intersected in quattrocento Florence. Using unpublished inventories, private documents and surviving domestic objects, The Renaissance Palace in Florence offers a more nuanced understanding of the early modern urban palace.
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A great achievement. This book re-establishes links between classical revival and Renaissance material culture, and demonstrates for the first time the close relationship between the 'magnificence' of Renaissance palaces and the 'splendour' of their interiors... Teachers, students, and the general reader will find this book a pleasure to read. Alison Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London

This is a timely publication that reflects the burgeoning scholarly interest in Italian Renaissance domestic buildings - inside as well as out. The book's great novelty lies in its focus on the Florentine palace as an integrated whole and establishes an interesting relationship between these buildings' interiors and exteriors. Patricia Allerston, National Galleries of Scotland

... hitherto unpublished inventories, private documents and surviving domestic objects are used to focus on the Florentine palace as in integrated whole and show the interiors as a series of splendid spaces where virtuous expenditure was displayed. The Oxford Times

'Maybe the most outstanding characteristic of Lindow's excellent study is the meticulous logic of his book's structure... While 'magnificence' has been a widely debated concept, Lindow makes a truly original - and necessary - contribution to the field by moving his discussion 'beyond the palace facade'... strong claims to become essential reading. The Art Book

The book as a whole comes across as a profound reappraisal of a largely neglected area of Florentine Renaissance life, and a valuable corrective to the more superficial view of the city's great buildings as being merely some kind of wilful self-indulgence. The Art Newspaper

'Teachers, students, and general readers will find this book useful for its synthesis of the theoretical underpinnings of magnificent architecture and splendid interior decoration in Renaissance Florence... the book will be welcome in courses on Renaissance arch

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