:Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence

Abstract

Introduction Part I. Memory and its Materials: 1. The historical material of memory Patrick Geary 2. Family memory: functions, evolution, recurrences Giovanni Ciappelli 3. Family, memory, and history Nicolai Rubinstein 4. Poetry as politics and memory in Renaissance Florence and Italy Lauro Martines Part II. The Imagery of Memory: 5. Art and the imagery of memory Patricia Lee Rubin 6. The memory of faces: representational choices in Florentine portraiture Alison Wright 7. Giovanni Benci's patronage of the nunnery, Le Murate Megan Holmes 8. Monument and memory in Renaissance Florence Andrew Butterfield Part III. Family Identity: 9. Artisan family strategies: proposals for research on the families of Florentine artists Margaret Haines 10. Florentine palaces and the memories of the past Brenda Preyer 11. Memory of place: Luogo and lineage in the fifteenth-century Florentine countryside Amanda Lillie 12. Family values: sculpture and the family in fifteenth-century Florence Geraldine Johnson Part IV. The Transmission of Memory: 13. Names, memory, public identity in late Medieval Florence Anthony Molho 14. The memory of exiled families: the case of the Strozzi Lorenzo Fabbri 15. Memoria and family in law Thomas Kuehn 16. Collective amnesia: family memory and the mendicants: a comment Samuel K. Cohn Jr.