Money and beauty
Subtitle: bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of the vanities
By: edited by Ludovica Sebregondi and Tim Parks
Edition: 1. ed.
Series: Gamm, Giunti arte mostre musei; Gamm, Giunti arte mostre musei
Publisher: Giunti; Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Firenze
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9788809767645
Subjects: Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy); Art; Exhibitions; Christian art and symbolism; Church decoration and ornament; Bankers; Art patronage
Other titles: Bankers, Botticelli and the bonfire of the vanities
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held in Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 17 September 2011-22 January 2012.

"Through the masterpieces of Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico and Antonio del Pollaiolo, the exhibition documents the rise of the first Florentine bankers at the dawn of the Renaissance and the meshing of their financial and political power with civil society; a splendid period of cultural exchange and commercial development that would be interrupted by the new climate of severity introduced by Savonarola's sermons."--P. 11.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-281) and index.