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This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo’s history, extending from its Early Christian foundation to the modern era. San Lorenzo depicts this church as a living Florentine institution, continually reshaped by complex historical forces.

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The scholars go inside and out and from bottom to top, and they deal with the entire complex—the basilica’s architecture, paintings, and sculpture along with that in the sacristies, cloisters, library, Medici Chapel, and piazza—and they present its role in Florentine urbanism, culture, politics, and patronage; address liturgy, preaching, music, and its personnel and operations, even a kitchen sink, neglecting almost nothing. -- C. W. Westfall * Choice *

San Lorenzo

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    A Hardback by Robert W. Gaston, Louis A. Waldman

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      Publisher Harvard University Press
      Published 5 June 2017
      ISBN-13 9780674975675
      978-0674975675
      ISBN-10 0674975677
      Also in:
      Architecture: religious buildings History of architecture Education / Educational sciences / Pedagogy

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo’s history, extending from its Early Christian foundation to the modern era. San Lorenzo depicts this church as a living Florentine institution, continually reshaped by complex historical forces.

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      The scholars go inside and out and from bottom to top, and they deal with the entire complex—the basilica’s architecture, paintings, and sculpture along with that in the sacristies, cloisters, library, Medici Chapel, and piazza—and they present its role in Florentine urbanism, culture, politics, and patronage; address liturgy, preaching, music, and its personnel and operations, even a kitchen sink, neglecting almost nothing. -- C. W. Westfall * Choice *

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