This is the catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Archeology and Art in Grosseto, Italy, from May to September 2008 in which thirty-one masterpieces of sixteenth-century Tuscan art were displayed for the public, most for the first time. Precise reproductions, both complete and in detail, are accompanied by rigorous academic and philological critical essays. The catalogue provides the reader with a striking pictorial treasure of rare beauty, while also appealing to scholars and experts through the quality of so many previously unpublished works by over twenty famous artists from the period. Italian text.

Articles presented at the conference on Florentine Renaissance palaces held at the State Archives in Florence in 2005. Various articles deal with architecture, facades, interior design, politics and style, all in relation to Renaissance palatial edifices in Florence. Papers in Italian and English. SOMMARIO: Brenda Preyer, Non solo facciate: dentro i palazzi Pazzi, Lenzi e Ridolfi Guidi Gianluca Belli, Il disegno delle facciate nei palazzi fiorentini del Quattrocento Riccardo Pacciani, Spazi e forme del culto in palazzi d'area fiorentina, 1370-1470. Dalla casata in chiesa alla chiesa in casa Linda Pellecchia, Stepping Up: Observations on the Renaissance Starcaise in Florence Carla G. Romby, Dietro la facciata. Rinnovamento e qualita dell'abitare nelle dimore fiorentine del Quattrocento Michael Lingohr, Un contributo alla lettura del palazzo da Gagliano a Firenze. Temi stilistici o politici nella Firenze del primo Cinquecento? Gabriele Morolli, Gli "horti" suburbani di Boboli. da Luca Pitti a Eleonora di Toledo: 'belvedere' albertiano o 'delizia' vasariana? Amedeo Belluzzi, Palazzi fiorentini del secondo Cinquecento Emanuela Ferretti, Un cantiere fiorentino nella Roma di meta Cinquecento. Nanni di Baccio e il palazzo di Averardo Serristori in Borgo Vecchio: Delizie per gli eruditi Caterina D'Amelio, Il palazzo Lenzi nei secoli XVII e XVIII. La proprieta Buini: storia e documenti Francesca Carrara, L'intrigante vicenda fiorentina di don Luigi di Toledo.

Andrea del Sarto's 1514 painting The Holy Family with St. Elizabeth, St. John the Baptist and two angels counts as one of the masterpieces of Italian painting in Munich's Alte Pinakothek. Her art, at the threshold between High Renaissance and Mannerism, is the focus of a special exhibition, and is extensively documented in this publication. For nearly 20 years, the painting was withdrawn from public viewing as its poor state required extensive restorations. To mark its return to the gallery in Munich from the collection of the Elector Johann Wilhelm in Dusseldorf, the painting is presented together with del Sarto's second version of the theme, currently in the possession of the Louvre. This results in the first opportunity to analyze the relationships between the two works side by side. This catalog documents and analyzes the art historical research and the results of detailed investigation of both paintings. German text.

This comprehensive study of the sculptures of Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) follows in twelve chapters his development as an artist and the area in which he excelled: portraits, the likeness of which astonished his contemporaries; the sculptures for St Peter in Rome; his extraordinary fountains; the timeless beauty of his renderings of mythological figures. German text. Die umfassende Monographie ueber die Skulpturen Gianlorenzo Berninis (1598-1680) beleuchtet in zwolf Kapiteln die Stationen seiner Entwicklung und die Gebiete, in denen er brillierte: die Portrats, deren -sprechende- Ahnlichkeit die Zeitgenossen verblueffte, die Werke fuer den Petersdom, die grandiosen Brunnen und seine Heiligen und zeitlos schonen Gestalten der antiken Mythologie. Den ausgefuehrten Werken gegenuebergestellte Vorzeichnungen, Tonskizzen und Modelle erlauben einen faszinierenden Einblick in den kuenstlerischen Schaffensprozea.

Dieser Band enthalt 131 Katalognummern mit mittelalterlichen und fruhneuzeitlichen Inschriften der Stadt Wiesbaden und ihrer eingemeindeten Vororte bis zum Jahr 1700. Sowohl die im Original erhaltenen als auch die verlorenen, jedoch durch Abschriften, Zeichnungen oder Fotos uberlieferten Inschriften wurden in den Katalog aufgenommen. Die altesten Grabsteine des 5. bis 6. Jahrhunderts legen Zeugnis ab von dem Weiterleben christlicher Glaubenstradition in der germanischen Bevolkerung nach dem Ende der romischen Herrschaft am Rhein. Gegen Ende des Mittelalters setzt auch in Wiesbaden die allenthalben zu beobachtende Verdichtung des Materials ein. Der Kreis der Auftraggeber von Inschriften erweitert sich und umfasst nun Adlige, Amtleute, Pfarrer und ein Jahrhundert spater auch Burgerliche, die in der untergegangenen Mauritiuskirche und den Vororten ihre Denkmaler hinterliessen. Die Einleitung des Bandes stellt Bezuge zwischen dem Inschriftenbestand und der Stadtgeschichte her. Im Katalogteil werden die Inschriftentrager beschrieben, die Texte wiedergegeben, bei Bedarf mit Ubersetzungen versehen und eingehend besprochen. Register und ein ausfuhrlicher Tafelteil erganzen die Edition.