Italian Renaissance art is closely intertwined with the development of courts and court culture in much of the Italian territory. The patronage of the ruling families of the small Italian city-states
Nine case studies on the artistic representation of earthquakes, fires and other natural disasters in European towns, from the late Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century.
Focusing on heritage and the uses of the past in the plural ethnic and cosmopolitan environment of Mediterranean cities, this volume offers new insights exploring the concepts of urban culture, memory
This book focuses on the ethnically composite nature of the Mediterranean cities and their cultural heritage. Contributors investigate the traces left by centuries of interethnic play on the urban sce
Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara… but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a compara
