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""La "Mascherata della Geneologia degli Dei" segnò il culmine della tradizione di trionfi e di canti del Carnevale fiorentino nel Rinascimento e assurse a modello per analoghe parate dei decenni successivi, così come il "Discorso" in cui... more
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      Visual StudiesIconographyItalian StudiesRenaissance Studies
Impresión BRIZZOLIS D.L.: M-6618-2020 © de la edición: Fundación ACS © de los textos: sus autores Cualquier forma de reproducción, distribución, comunicación pública o transformación de esta obra solo puede ser realizada con la... more
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      Pintura muralBlas de PradoBaccio BaldiniCatedral De Toledo
This paper deals with Marsilio Ficino's astrological conception of the pagan sibyls and its likely influence on Baccio Baldini's engravings from the 'Prophets and Sibyls' series and trump cards of the tarot of Marseille; it subsequently... more
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      Italian Renaissance ArtTarotMarsilio FicinoRenaissance magic and astrology
Hercules was an exemplar of moral and civic virtue when represented in Italian Renaissance art. How he embodied masculinity, however, has not been explored. A popular but complicated figure, he visualized the burdens and tensions of... more
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      Masculinity StudiesMasculinityMasculinitiesClassical Mythology
Egli sapeva bene cosa significava quella rottura delle idee, quell'incrinatura in seno alle cose.
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      AlchemyGiorgio VasariAstrologiaCabala
This note investigates the path that led to the creation of the Chariot trump of the Tarot “of Marseille” (fig. 2). The track originates from a drawing by the Venetian painter Jacopo Bellini showing a triumphal wagon pulled by two horses... more
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      Italian Renaissance ArtTarots (Art)TarotHistory of games, playing cards
In occasione del settimo centenario dalla morte di Dante Alighieri, il volume rievoca il suo rapporto con Verona, città nella quale egli soggiornò a lungo nei primi vent'anni del Trecento. Il Poeta fu ospite della corte scaligera,... more
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      Dante StudiesDante AlighieriSandro BotticelliStoria Del Libro
anno XXV, fascicolo 1-2, gennaio-dicembre 2013 LA MASCHERATA DELLA GENEALOGIA DEGLI DEI S O M M A R I O Laura Riccò, Premessa, p. 5; Abbreviazioni, p. 9; Luca Degl'Innocenti, Un archivio digitale per gli Dèi di carnevale: la «mascherata»... more
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Il saggio di Eliana Carrara intende porre l’attenzione su alcuni elementi finora trascurati, o non ancora adeguatamente studiati, del ricco apparato festivo allestito per le nozze del principe Francesco I con Giovanna d’Austria, celebrate... more
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      Cosimo BartoliFrancesco I de' MediciCosimo I de' MediciBaccio Baldini
Representations of the planets and their children were among the first pagan images to be produced and adopted in the late Middle Ages. During the circa 200 years in which they mainly appeared, up until the end of the sixteenth century,... more
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      Renaissance StudiesHistory of AstrologyHistory of ArtItalian Renaissance Art
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      Prints (Art History)15th Century Italian ArtPrints and DrawingsHistory of Printmaking
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      History of FlorencePalaeographyBenedetto VarchiCosimo I de' Medici
In Italy the famous engravings known as “Finiguerra Planets” and representing the Seven planets and their Children were popularized in two different series, but only the first one was made by the Florentine engraver Baccio Bal- dini... more
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      Art HistoryItalian Renaissance ArtDrawings and PrintsPrints (Art History)
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      Giorgio VasariBaccio Baldini
This contribution describes specific aspects of the dispute on the concept of fate developed during the Renaissance, starting from the edition and commentary of an unpublished letter written by Vincenzio Borghini in 1570s. This text... more
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      Dante StudiesItalian StudiesRenaissance StudiesRenaissance Humanism
Edited by: Alessandra Pedersoli, Antonella Sbrilli. Including contributions by: Damiano Acciarino, Maddalena Bassani, Elisa Bastianello, Monica Centanni, Simona Dolari, Francesca Ghedini, Laura Leuzzi, Antonella Sbrilli, Silvia Urbini.
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      PhilologyIconographyRenaissance StudiesRenaissance Humanism
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      ProphetsAnnunciationPurificationSacre Rappresentazioni
Sotto la segnatura Palatino C.B.III.53, I della BNCF si conserva gran parte dei figurini originali utilizzati per allestire la "Mascherata della Geneologia degli Dei" del Carnevale fiorentino del 1566. Lo studio delle annotazioni... more
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The article aims to shed light on some particular aspects of the activity and the scientific thought of Baccio Baldini, Director of the Laurentian Library and Court physician of the Medici family in Florence. The analysis of his work as a... more
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Trans-Formation.
In: Theatrum Orbis MMXVII, La Biennale di Venezia.
Venise, Marsilio, 2017
S.101-111
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      Art HistoryPrometheus MythOvid's MetamorphosesBaccio Baldini
Sebbene difettino, allo stato attuale delle conoscenze, le evidenze di un intervento diretto di Leonardo nell'incisione di matrici da stampa, diversi sono i segni che, attraverso gli scritti e le opere, dimostrano la sua familiarità con... more
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      Print CultureHistory of CollectionsHistory of CollectingPrint Collecting
Christian fortitude and civic heroism blend in the Renaissance figure of a muscular, idealized, nude Hercules overcoming his foes and performing mythic labours or resting in glorious victory (see plate 1). 1 By the time Cesare Ripa's... more
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      Art HistoryArtMasculinity StudiesMasculinity