Building and writing S. Lorenzo in Florence: architect, biographer, patron, and prior

• Autores: Marvin Trachtenberg
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 97, Nº 2, 2015, págs. 140-172
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Who built S. Lorenzo in Florence? Was it the first Renaissance church, or merely a classical veneer on a medieval brick structure? Was Filippo Brunelleschi its founding architect, or did he share the credit with Matteo Dolfini, the church prior? Were the founding patrons the Medici, or rather the prior and the church community? Is the chapter on S. Lorenzo in the vita of Brunelleschi by Antonio Manetti by and large an accurate historical source, or is it politically motivated narrative that has befuddled art historians from Vasari to the present? Read on.