Tag: Italy (Modern Period)
Exhibition at The Met: Politics, Patronage, and Power in Medicean Florence
The Tuscan Medici family are not only good for soap operas, they transformed the republic of Florence into a duchy ruled by them. One tool of power was art. How diligently they used some of the most celebrated artists of Italian Renaissance illustrates an exhibition at The Met.
King Money and Genoa’s Luxury
Genoa has played a major role in Italy’s history as a centre of commerce. Genoese coins testify of the many shifts, from Republic to monarchy, as rival of Pisa and under the dominion of Napoleon. An exhibition explores Genoa’s permanent supreme power: “King Money”.