The Cinquecento in Florence
Subtitle: "modern manner" and counter-reformation
By: edited by Carlo Falciani and Antonio Natali
Publisher: Mandragora
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9788874613601; 9788874613519
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Italian Art; Exhibitions; Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy),; Mannerism (Art)
Work titles: Cinquecento a Firenze. English
Description: Explores the development of Florentine art in the second half of the century through the painting, sculpture, and draughtsmanship of such artists as Andrea del Sarto, Bronzino, Pontormo, Giorgio Vasari, Giambologna and Bartolomeo Ammannati. The exhibition will also provide a unique opportunity to celebrate the outstanding cultural and intellectual era that was marked by the Council of Trent and its Counter-Reformation, and by the figure of Francesco I de Medici, one of the most outstanding figures in the history of court patronage of the arts in Europe. -- publisher's statement.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, September 21, 2017-January 21, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-363).

Translated from the Italian.