Magnificence has become a significant subject in discussions of Italian Renaissance art,
particularly architecture, since it came to widespread attention in the early 1960s as a …

A useful framework within which to examine Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti's descriptions
is provided by another Renaissance commentator upon magnificence, Giovanni Giuniano …

Between 1436 and I450 Cosimo de'Medici was alone in Italy in spending very large sums of
money on a series of building projects. This was opposed to the most generally expressed …

Magnificence, grandeur and lavishness are hallmarks of rulers throughout the centuries, and
the early modern period holds a special place in the history of magnificence, with rulers …

This book provides a reassessment of the theory of magnificence in light of the related social
virtue of splendour. Author James Lindow highlights how magnificence, when applied to …

Magnificence and the Sublime in Medieval Aesthetics: Art, Architecture, Literature, Music |
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It was an old custom in medieval Europe, dating back to Roman times, that a prince's
palatium should be one of the most tangible outward signs of his monarchic rule. There are …

By concentrating on Paolo Cortesi's discussion of the cardinal's architectural patronage in
“De Cardinalatu Libri Tres”(1510), this article shows how Cortesi considered the …

The place of the Renaissance—and in particular the Italian Renaissance—in twentieth-
century architecture is well known. Both architects and critics have proclaimed it in …

The magnificence with which the Florentine Renaissance is synonymous derived its power
from a virtue elucidated and disseminated by influential preachers as early as the 1420s …