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The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages
Under the guidance of the leading experts on baptismal fonts and the co-directors of the Baptisteria Sacra Index, the world?s only iconographical inventory of baptismal fonts, a research project at the University of Toronto, this collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. The ?visual? is privileged, whether it is in the metaphysical, literary or empirical realms of scholarship, offering a rich understanding of the powerful role of baptism played in medieval and renaissance society. In the quest for a holistic understanding of the vessels, the settings and contexts, the rituals and th...
Medici villas North-West of Florence
English summary: This useful guide to the villages and gardens northwest of Florence provides both tourists and locals alike with detailed descriptions of the area's rural architectural heritage, monuments belonging to the most illustrious noble families, and the splendid surrounding parks and gardens. A glossary, thorough bibliography, indices and scholarly presentations complete the volume. Italian text. Italian description: L'utile guida alle ville e ai giardini nei dintorni di Firenze permette di conoscere i complessi architettonici rurali delle più illustri e nobili famiglie fiorentine e le testimonianze archeologiche della Piana e delle colline a nord-ovest di Firenze. Circondate da s...
Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas
This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the story of how an element of the garden—the pergola—became a pictorial topos in portico decoration, and evolved, hand in hand with its real cousin in the garden, into an object for cultural emulation among the educated patrons of early modern Rome. The liminality of both the portico and the pergola at the interface of architecture and garden is key to the interpretation of these architectural and...
Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective
Stories about pranks figure prominently in Boccaccio's Decameron. This book explores Boccaccio's poetics of repetition, accumulation, and contiguity in Day Eight, a day rich in tales of practical jokes.
Renaissance Florence
This book examines the social history of Florence from the fourteenth through to sixteenth centuries.
Paradise on Earth
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