Art, Memory, and Family in Renaissance Florence - Tapa dura

"This collection of essays provokes considerable thought and makes an important contribution to the state of our knowledge concerning how art reinforced, stimulated, and even created family pasts and family futures in Renaissance Florence." Renaissance Quarterly

"A valuable book for both historians and art historians concerned with Renaissance Florence..." caa.rev

"[A] handsomely produced book" American Historical Review Feb 2002

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 locality in the social and political life of the city. Investigating the means and modes of formulating and recording those relationships, the essays gathered together in this study consider the interconnections between society, art and collective memory.