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The Appian Way
Ivana della Portella, editor
Getty Trust Publications
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1682
0892367520 $39.95 www.getty.edu
Enhanced with the breathtakingly beautiful color photography of Franco Mammana
and expertly compiled, edited and oreganized by Ivana della Portella, The
Appian Way: From Its Foundation To The Middle Ages is a photographic and
historical showcase of the first major artery to connect Rome to southern
Italy, which became a model for all roads originating within the ancient
capital. A historical survey of the road from its construction in 312 B.C. to
its use centuries laterby Christian pilgrims en route to Jerusalem and much
more enhances the scenic images from the road itself as well as artistic
illustrations expressing edifices from ancient times along this historic road.
A treasure for history buffs and a joy for armchair travelers.
Baccio Bandinelli
And Art At The Medici Court
Louis A. Waldman
American Philosophical Society
104 South Fifth Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-3387
0871692511 $60.00 amphilsoc.org
Baccio Bandinelli And Art At The Medici Court: A Corpus Of Early Modern Sources
by Louis A. Waldman (Assistant Professor of Italian Renaissance and Baroque
Art, University of Texas - Austin) is a collection of source information
concerning Florentine sculptor Baccio Bandinelli (1493-1560). Accused by his
enemies of beign foul-mouthed, greedy, and sycophantic, to the extent that he
inspired the two-dimensional character Fieramosca in Berlioz's 1838 opera
"Benvenuto Cellini", Baccio Bandinelli affected art history in more ways than
the his detractors would have one believe - his originality was remarkable
enough to become part of the image of dynastic legitimacy for his Medici
patrons, and his works perpetuated his influence long after his name became
memory. Baccio Bandinelli And Art At The Medici Court presents its wealth of
documents, many from the private archive of the Bandinelli family, entirely in
their original Italian with some English annotations; however, the many
documents themselves are not translated. An excellent primary art history
source source for those familiar with Italian.
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