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<P>In the past half century scholars have downplayed the significance of Lorenzo de' Medici (1449–1492), called "the Magnificent," as a patron of the arts. Less wealthy than his grandfather Cosimo, the argument goes, Lorenzo was far more interested in collecting ancient objects of art than in commissioning contemporary art or architecture. His earlier reputation as a patron was said to be largely a construct of humanist exaggeration and partisan deference.</P><P>Although some recent studies have taken issue with this view, no synthesis of Lorenzo as art patron and art lover has yet emerged. In <I>Lorenzo de' Medici and the Art of Magnificence</I> historian F. W. Kent offers a new look at Lorenzo's relationship to the arts, aesthetics, collecting, and building—especially in the context of his role as the political boss (<I>maestro della bottega</I>) of republican Florence and a leading player in Renaissance Italian diplomacy. As a result of this approach, which pays careful attention to the events of his short but dramatic life, a radically new chronology of Lorenzo's activities as an art patron emerges, revealing them to have been more extensive and creative than previously thoug

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Author

Medici, Lorenzo de';Kent, Francis William

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801892011

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir