Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence

Download or read book Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence written by Giovanni Ciappelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence examines the relationship between the production of objects and the production of memory and history in fifteenth-century Florence. Recent studies of Florence by cultural, social, political and economic historians have resulted in a considerable knowledge of family life in this period and the significance of family, kin and neighborhood in the social and political life of the city. Investigating the means and modes of formulating and recording those relationships, the essays gathered in this study consider the interconnections among society, art and memory.