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25. Sassetta: The Borgo San
Sepolcro Altarpiece, edited by Machtelt Israėls.
2 vols.
Leiden: Primavera
Press, 2009.
Sassetta, the subtle genius
from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the
small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437-1444. Originally
standing some six yards high, double-sided, with a splendid gilt frame
over the main altar of the local Franciscan church, it was the Rolls
Royce of early Renaissance painting. But its myriad figures and scenes
tempted the collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and
today its disassembled panels can be found in twelve museums throughout
Europe and the United States.
This book solves the
three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle of this masterwork's reconstruction and,
on a firm scientific foundation, restores it to its vivid historical
context. To produce this landmark volume, experts in art and of history,
painting technique and conservation, woodworking, architecture, and
liturgy have joined forces across the boundaries of eight different
nations. A model of collaboration, it opens new windows onto the
creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church
at a crossroad of cultures, the miracle-working body of a holy man, and
a community of Franciscan friars breathing the exhilarating air of
reform. To confront such challenges, Sassetta raised the most spiritual
school of early Italian art, the Sienese, to a higher level of
understanding, grace, and splendor.
Director's
Prologue
Introduction
Sample Catalogue
Entry:
The Wolf of Gubbio
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24. Memory and Invention:
Medieval and Renaissance Literature, Art and Music. Acts of an
International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, May 11, 2006, edited by Anna
Maria Busse Berger and Massimiliano Rossi.
Florence:
Leo S. Olschki, 2009
The art of memory
-ars memorativa- profoundly impacted Western culture throughout the Middle
Ages and Renaissance. Ever since Aby Warburg inscribed the word
Mnemosyne over the door of the institute that bears his name, modern
scholarship has increasingly recognized and explored the central role of
memorization, with all its various techniques and applications, in the
practice of writers, composers, and artists.
This volume presents the
papers of a conference held at Villa I Tatti on May 11, 2006, conceived
and organized by Anna Maria Busse Berger and Massimiliano Rossi. Ranging
from literature and music to painting and architecture, the eight essays
collected here pose new questions about the relationship between memory
as a tool for creative expression and its formative impact on patterns
of thought and modes of organizing knowledge.
Director's
Preface
Introduction
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23. Arnolfo's Moment. Acts of an International Conference,
Florence, Villa I Tatti, May 26-27, 2005, edited by David Friedman, Julian
Gardner, and Margaret Haines.
Florence:
Leo S. Olschki, 2009.
Arnolfo di Cambio, from the
Tuscan town of Colle val d’Elsa, was to become one of the most
cosmopolitan artists of the Italian peninsula during the pivotal decades
1270-1310. His employment by the Angevin kings of Naples, the Papacy and
its Roman entourage and by the Central Italian communes such as Perugia
and Florence, calling upon his skills as an inventive and expeditious
sculptor, affected all the visual arts and eventually led to his
appointment to the influential role of head architect of the new
cathedral of Florence. The artist’s achievements exemplify the fertile
interaction of classical and gothic influences that characterized the
reflowering of Italian art, language and society in this dynamic moment.
On the occasion of the
Arnolfo di Cambio VII centenary celebrations a group of scholars
gathered at Villa I Tatti to share the challenge of interpreting his
art, its patronage and its significance in their historical contexts,
searching for new perspectives in an interdisciplinary program of
studies. This volume presents the multifaceted results of their
dialogue.
Director's
Preface
Introduction
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22. The Brancacci Chapel: Form, Function and Setting.
Acts
of an International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 6, 2003, edited by
Nicholas A. Eckstein.
Florence:
Leo S.
Olschki, 2007. |
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21. Nicolai Rubinstein: in
Memoriam. Florence:
Leo S.
Olschki, 2005. |
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20. L'arme e
gli amori Ariosto Tasso and Guarini in Late Renaissance Florence. Acts
of an International Conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 27-29, 2001,
edited by Massimiliano Rossi and Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi.
Florence: Leo
S.Olschki, 2004, 2 vols. |
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19. The Italian Renaissance in the 20th Century.
Acts of an international conference,
Villa I Tatti, Florence, 9-11 June 1999, edited by Allen J. Grieco, Michael
Rocke, and Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi.
Florence: Leo S.
Olschki, 2002
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18. Santa Maria del Fiore The
Cathedral and its Sculpture. Acts of the international Symposium for the VII
Centenary of the Cathedral of Florence, edited by Margaret Haines.
Fiesole: Edizioni Cadmo, 2001 |
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17. Medieval Mosaic: Light,
Color, Materials, edited by Eve Borsook, Fiorella Gioffredi Superbi and Giovanni
Pagliarulo.
Milan:
Silvana Editoriale, 2000
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number of free copies available |
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16.
Annibale Carracci and the Beginnings of Baroque
Style. Second
edition with New Introduction and Select Bibliography
by Charles
Dempsey.
Fiesole:
Edizioni Cadmo, Fiesole, 2000
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15. Aldus Manutius and
Renaissance Culture. Essays in Memory of Franklin D. Murphy.
Acts of an International Conference, Venice and Florence, 14-17 June 1994,
edited by D.S. Zeidberg.
Florence: Leo S. Olschki,
1998.
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14. The Triumph of Vulcan.
Sculptor's Tools, Porphyry and the Prince in Ducal Florence,
by Suzanne B. Butters.
Florence: Leo S. Olschki,1995, 2 vols.
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13. Opera. Carattere e
ruolo delle fabbriche cittadine fino all'inizio dell'età moderna.
Atti della Tavola Rotonda, Villa I Tatti, Firenze, 3 aprile 1991, a cura
di M. Haines e L. Riccetti,
Florence:
Leo S. Olschki,
1996.
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12. On Artists and Art
Historians: Selected Book Reviews of John Pope-Hennessy,
edited
by Walter Kaiser and Michael Mallon.
Florence: Leo S.Olschki,
1993. |
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11. Florence and Milan:
Comparisons and Relations.
Acts of two Conferences
at Villa I Tatti in 1984 and 1986, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein,
and C.H. Smyth, edited by C.H. Smyth and G. C. Garfagnini.
Florence:La Nuova Italia
Editrice, 1989, 2 vols.
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10. Pirro Ligorio - Artist
and Antiquarian,
edited by Robert W. Gaston.
Milan:
Silvana Editoriale,1988.
Limited
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9. Tecnica e Stile:
Esempi
di pittura murale del Rinascimento italiano,
a cura di E. Borsook e F. Superbi Gioffredi.
Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 1986, 2 vols.
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8. The Parte Guelfa, Brunelleschi
and Donatello,
by Diane Finiello Zervas.
Locust
Valley, New York: J.J. Augustin 1988.
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7. Renaissance Studies
in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth,
edited by A.
Morrogh, F. Superbi Gioffredi, P. Morselli, E. Borsook.
Florence:
Giunti Barbera, , 1985, 2 vols.
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6. Neighbours and Neighbourhood
in Renaissance Florence: the District of the Red Lion in the Fifteenth
Century,
by D.V. and F.W. Kent.
Locust
Valley, New York: J.J. Augustin 1982.
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5. Florence and Venice:
Comparisons and Relations.
Acts of two Conferences
at Villa I Tatti in 1976 and 1977, organized by S. Bertelli, N. Rubinstein,
and C.H. Smyth.
Florence:
La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1979-80, 2 vols.
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4. Masaccio: The Documents,
by
James Beck, with the collaboration of Gino Corti.
Locust
Valley, New York: J.J. Augustin 1978.
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3. Annibale Carracci and
the Beginnings of Baroque Style,
by Charles
Dempsey.
Glückstadt:
J.J. Augustin Verlag, 1977.
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2. Essays Presented to
Myron P. Gilmore,
edited by Sergio Bertelli
and Gloria Ramakus.
Florence:
La Nuova Italia Editrice, 1978, 2 vols.
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1. Studies on Machiavelli,
edited by Myron P. Gilmore.
Florence: Casa Editrice Sansoni, 1972.
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