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 …

Fv lorentine palace architecture during the Renaissance is no longer the" no-man's land"
described by Howard Saalman in 1964.1 Thanks to a number of careful studies of individual …

Urbanistic practice in trecento Florence, although it spawned no codified theory, was more
conceptually developed than we usually imagine. Buildings were forcefully presented and …

This article examines a treatise on the concept of Splendour from the late fifteenth century.
Written by the Naples-based humanist, Giovanni Pontano, it deals, with the domestic display …

Abstract (en) Reexamines Lorenzo the Magnificent's policies and projects in Florence,
involving new streets, lower and middle-income housing, and the encouragement of palace …

The present article presents a framework of further research into Roman and Florentine
domestic architecture of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, or, to be more specific: into …

THE CHAIRMAN: We know a fair amount about town planning in Florence during the
fourteenth century, but despite the vast amount of literature on the architecture of …

SINCE THE APPEARANCE of a fundamental article twenty years ago, 1 much has been
published about the notion of magnificence in relation to fifteenthcentury Italian art. 2 In this …

Milan was one of the largest and most important cities in Renaissance Italy. Controlled by
the Visconti and Sforza dynasties from 1277 until 1500, its rulers were generous patrons of …

This first detailed study of a Florentine palace built before the Medici Palace offers a
paradigm for approaching the city's domestic architecture from the period 1370-1420. The …