The Codex of the Anonimo Magliabechiano

Newly Edited with a Transcription Faithful to the Original Manuscript and Provided with an Introduction
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-53977-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 512 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: NIKI Studies in Netherlandish-Italian Art History

This book offers a new edition of one of the most important art historical sources on Italian art. Written not long before Vasari's famous Lives (1550), this source provides an overview of art from Cimabue to Michelangelo. Moreover, the author's ambition was to provide a sketch of the art of classical antiquity. First published in the late nineteenth century, the Codex has led to numerous questions, the main one being: who was its author? We believe we have found the answer to this question, which led us to come up with a new edition of the Codex.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wierda, Bouk

Ter Toolen, Lotte van

Veen, Henk Th van

Weitere Mitwirkende

Webb, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction: The Codex of the Anonimo Magliabechiano in Context

1 The Codex

2 The Sources of the Codex

3 Approach and Working Method in the Codex

4 Dating

5 Characterization of the Author

6 The Author’s Identity

7 The Identification Substantiated

8 The Edition

9 Note on the Transcription

10 Note on the English Translation of Passages from the Codex

Transcription of the Codex

Appendix 1: Inventory of Artists Discussed in the Codex

Appendix 2: List of Artworks and Buildings Cited in the Second Part of the Codex

Bibliography

Illustrations

Indexes

Über Autor(innen)

Bouk Wierda, MA Art History, University of Groningen (2004), independent scholar, published on Florentine patricians and (together with Gert Jan Van der Sman) ‘Wisselend succes: De loopbanen van Nederlandse en Vlaamse kunstenaars in Florence, 1450-1600’ (Brill 2013).

Lotte van ter Toolen, MA Art History (2014), is PhD candidate and lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Groningen. She is preparing her dissertation on 15th- and 16th-century tomb monuments for artists in Rome.

Henk Th. van Veen, Professor Em. of Art History at the University of Groningen. He has published widely on Florentine art- and cultural history, including Cosimo I de’ Medici and his Self-Representation in Florentine Art and Culture (Cambridge: CUP, 2006 (2011)).