Author : Nicolai Rubinstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Palazzo Vecchio, 1298-1532 by : Nicolai Rubinstein
Download or read book The Palazzo Vecchio, 1298-1532 written by Nicolai Rubinstein and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * The author is the world's leading expert on Florentine politics in the Renaissance period Nicolai Rubinstein's unique command of the complexities of Florentine political history has resulted in this extremely impressive study of the Palazzo Vecchio and the way in which it functioned as a seat of the Florentine republican government from the late thirteenth century to 1530. He traces thehistory of the construction and successive changes to the building in the republican period, documents where the various committees and officers of the government were housed, and relates the consecutive campaigns of decoration of the interior very closely and subtly to changes in the politicaltemperature of the city. Rubinstein's extraordinarily scrupulous approach to the evidence, together with the exhaustive archival research he has carried out, have produced an important study, which arrives at a number of new and important conclusions to particular problems of concern to art historians as well as politicalhistorians.