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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Thanks to the exceptional loans from the Gallerie degli Uffizi as well as the antiqui ties from the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s collection the cxhibition allows us to consider which ancient works were available to fifteenth-century Florentine artists directly and what instead might have been known through the media tion of drawings engravings or repetitions by other artists. Additionally important loan from an American private collection makes it possible to highlight the importance of the so-called Garden of San Marco where the ancient art collection of the Medici was displayed. This was also an open place of learning an informal school for artists to study ancient art a place that according to the sources of the time Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo also frequented References to antiquity emerge in the works on display as cultural inspiration but the transmission of classical mod- els and mythological subjects could also be understood in a spiritual sense. In a society pervaded by religious faith clas sical allusions expressed moral examples or complex alle gorical symbolism. The motifs derived from antiquity were aiso frequently reinterpreted as pagan fables in domestic contexts as seen in patrician residences and the produc tion of household furnishings and objects. An exceptional instance of this is the forziere or wedding chest from Mia’s collection. Such pieces of furniture were commissioned on the occasion of important dynastic weddings in this case we have an extraordinarily well preserved example almost unique for its structural and decorative integrity (fifteenth-century furniture is almost always remodeled or modified). New research has made it possible to identify the coats of arms. The possibility of seeing it next to painted spalliere that is furrushings on the walls of palaces of the time presents the opportunity to appreciate the onegration between painting sculpture and desocative arts especially high proble adists were often called upon reproduce subjects such as these. (MP)