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da Giotto a Caravaggio = from Giotto to Caravaggio
424 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
The painting collections in the state museums of Florence are unequalled for their quality, historical significance and for the sheer number of works. Never before have they been presented in a publication of such splendid technical quality. The Uffizi, the Palatine Gallery, the Accademia and the other national collections, to which the Contini Bonacossi donation and the works recovered by Rodolfo Siviero have recently been added, constitute the greatest museum complex in the world. It is a complex unified by its history, closely tied at first to the Medici family, who were originally patrons and benefactors but who later, as their political power waned, came to be characterized as collectors and preservers of heritage. These museums bear witness to the Florentine supremacy in the arts that was established by Cosimo I with the invaluable assistance of Vincenzo Borghini and of Giorgio Vasari.
The Florentine Museum system / Antonio Paolucci -- From palace to museum: The history of the Florentine galleries / Marco Chiarini -- Tuscan painting in the thirteenth century -- Italian painting in the fourteenth century -- The late or international gothic style -- Italian painting in the fifteenth century -- The fifteenth century in Flanders and Germany -- Italy in the sixteenth century -- Painting in Flanders, Holland, Germany, France and Spain in the sixteenth century -- Federico Barocci -- Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti -- List of artists.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.