127 Benozzo Gozzoli

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Description: Journey of the Magi (with portraits of the Medici family)

TitleJourney of the Magi (with portraits of the Medici family)

Creator nameGozzoli, Benozzo

Creator nationality/cultureItalian

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1459

Object typePainting

MaterialsUnknown

DimensionsUnknown

LocationPalazzo Medici Chapel, Florence

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsMagi--ArtProcessions in artClothing and dress in artMural painting and decoration, Renaissance--ItalyKings and rulers in artHunting in art

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2. The Appeal to the Ethiopian

Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume II: From the Early Christian Era to the “Age of Discovery,” Part 2: Africans in the Christian Ordinance of the World

The development of the image of the black in nonimperial Europe differed from the evolution we have so far studied. We have seen that in the empire the image developed mainly within the confines of heraldry and typology. The rest of Europe was traversed by two conflicting currents—the one traditional, with its stereotypes, the other realistic, with its concrete images derived from contact...

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Jean Devisse and Michel Mollat and William Granger Ryan (Translator)

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.83-152

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00138.006

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Chapter subject tags:Art, MedievalGeography, Medieval--MapsArt and historyChristian art and symbolism--Medieval, 500-1500

2. "Dello Splendido Vivere": On Necessary and Honorable Expenditure

Patricia Lee Rubin

Images and Identity in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Leon Battista Alberti devoted the third book of his dialogue On the Family to the subject of domestic economy. The assembled members of the Alberti family discuss the expenditures that pertain to the honor and reputation of the lineage, the casa. Leon Battista’s cousin Lionardo cites the number of occasions that “our fathers” had undertaken such expenditures …

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Patricia Lee Rubin

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.19-57

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00066.005

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Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyAlberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472Sculpture, Renaissance--ItalyPalazzo Rucellai (Florence, Italy)Architecture, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceAltarpieces, Renaissance--ItalyBattistero di San Giovanni (Florence, Italy)Donatello, 1386?-1466Art patronage--ItalyFlorence (Italy)--HistoryAltarpieces, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceArt patronage--Italy--FlorencePainting, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceSculpture, Renaissance--Italy--FlorenceArchitecture, Renaissance--Italy

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