Lia Markey
Auteur de Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Lia Markey [credit: Northwestern University]
Œuvres de Lia Markey
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The Reception of Aristotle’s Poetics in the Italian Renaissance and Beyond: New Directions in Criticism… (2021) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1977
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Études
- University of Chicago
- Professions
- art historian
lecturer - Organisations
- Newberry Library
Northwestern University
University of Pennsylvania
Princeton University
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Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 16
- Popularité
- #679,947
- Évaluation
- 4.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence offers an insightful and intriguing glimpse into how the Medici gathered, processed, and displayed knowledge of the New World to flaunt their wealth and impress people with their power. In her conclusion, Markey compares the “phenomenon of vicarious conquest” to the “German Orientalism” of the nineteenth century. Germans, who did not build a colonial empire until late in the century, competed with the imperial powers Britain and France with their scholarship on the Middle East and East. Similarly, Markey maintains that Medici Florence’s “cultural engagement with foreign places was a critical way to lay claim and to demonstrate dominance” (p. 161) even though they did not have a colonial empire like Spain and Portugal. Imagining the Americas in Medici Florence is a large-sized book, copiously illustrated, lucidly written, and engaging throughout. Well-researched, Markey supports her contentions with expansive notes and an extensive bibliography. Though lacking in maps and direct details of exploration and discovery, it is an interesting book detailing how information from such expeditions can be processed and used by scholars and rulers for their own benefit. Historians of discovery and art would benefit from reading this fascinating work.… (plus d'informations)