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Creator
Date
[2016]
Location
University Park, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
Media format
Printed text
Extent
xvii, 241 pages
Language
English
Size
27 cm
Reference IDs
Folger bibliographic ID: 351044
Folger call number: N5273.2.M43 M37 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499728
Folger call number: N5273.2.M43 M37 2016
Folger holdings ID: 499728
Summary
"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
Notes
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
Also known as
Extended title: Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence / Lia Markey
Related names
author: Markey, Lia
subject: Medici, House of
subject: Medici, House of