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Pompa e intelletto : Formen der Ordnung und Inszenierung botanischen Wissens im späten Grossherzogtum der Medici / Irina Schmiedel.
LIBRA QK21.I8 S356 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schmiedel, Irina, author.
- Series:
- Phoenix : Mainzer kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek ; Band 3.
- Phoenix : Mainzer kunstwissenschaftliche Bibliothek ; Band 3
- Language:
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723.
- Botany--Italy--Tuscany--History.
- Botany.
- Cosimo III, Grand-Duke of Tuscany, 1642-1723--Knowledge and learning.
- Cosimo.
- Learning and scholarship.
- History.
- Italy--Tuscany.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 387 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2016]
- Summary:
- By examining the collecting interests and protective practices of Cosimo III de Medici, the study reveals the close ties between the arts and natural sciences in the early modern period. A number of previously unpublished sources of images and texts reveal a panorama of botanical splendor and scholarship during the era of the "last Medici" and examine the achievements and boundaries of grand-ducal patronage.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-372) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110448153
- 3110448157
- OCLC:
- 956947656
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