Markey, Lia. Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence

Folger bibliographic ID: 351044
Folger call number: N5273.2.M43 M37 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499728

"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

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-255) and index

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

Extended title: Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence / Lia Markey

Medici, House of Indian art Art, Renaissance Art, Italian America Art museums Italy

author: Markey, Lia
subject: Medici, House of