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Cosimo and Renaissance Patronage | Cosimo de` Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron`s Oeuvre | Dale Kent

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	• Cosimo de` Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron`s Oeuvre Dale Kent Yale University Press, 2000 - 552 pages average customer review:based on 4 reviews view larger image
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Beautiful and beautifully written

This is a gorgeously illustrated and beautifully written exploration of Cosimo's patronage and the political, civic, and religious motivations for his many commissions. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the Renaissance or art patronage.

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I'm one of Kent's students. The introduction is perhaps the most interesting of all: this is a woman who has an intimate knowledge of the Medici. Then again, this book reads like one big Tabloid newspaper: it is a collection of gossip between the family Medici the most powerful family in Renaissance Florence. The unsinkable Cosimo d' Medici wrote volumes of personal correspondence that was never intended to see the light of day. Except this book exposes the family.

It's truly a piece of humanist thinking and worth your florins

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Cosimo and Renaissance Patronage

As an art history student working on a thesis concerning the patronage of the Medici family, I have found this monumentally intellectual work to be the best source of both information and explanation, articulately and interestingly stated. I have read at least 40 books, and many many papers written on this subject, none as well done as Ms. Kent. She looks at patronage from a completely different standpoint than almost anybody else has done and worked it beautifully. The fact that the spiritual feeling of the day has been understudied and overlooked and undervalued is very clear and makes the patronage of the Medici very understandable indeed.

Thank you so much Ms. Kent for making my thesis easier to write and giving me so much information I haven't found elsewhere. It is for a colleague of yours. If only I could be as articulate as you, I would be very happy indeed.

I highly recommend this book to any student of Art History who has an interest in the Renaissance.

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This remarkable book is the first to examine all the art and architecture commissioned by Florence's leading patron of the fifteenth century, Cosimo de' Medici. These spectacular commissions, when viewed together, provide an entirely new picture of Cosimo, his point of view, his motivations and intentions as a patron, and the themes that permeate his oeuvre. "Kent's splendid book is a stunningly innovative treatment of the patronage of art by Cosimo de' Medici. She sets a new standard for studies of the Medici and indeed all cultural phenomena in Florence."-Brenda Preyer

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