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Lorenzo de'Medici, Collector of Antiquities
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ISBN10: 0521452457
ISBN13: 9780521452458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 10 2006
Pages: 446
Weight: 3.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.70 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780521452458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 10 2006
Pages: 446
Weight: 3.85
Height: 1.30 Width: 8.70 Depth: 11.10
Language: English
Lorenzo de'Medici was a passionate collector of objects from antiquity and the post-antiquity period as well as an important patron of the arts in fifteenth-century Florence. His activities as a collector are documented in a group of 173 previously unknown letters included in this volume. As revealed in these letters, Lorenzo had a preference for small objects: coins, hardstone vases, and gems. This book reveals how such objects were studied, displayed, selected and valued by de'Medici and other collectors during this period.
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