Dit boek vertelt het verhaal van de welgestelde bankierszoon Lorenzo Tornabuoni (1468-1497) en zijn vrouw Giovanna degli Albizzi (1468-1488), beiden afkomstig uit aanzienlijke invloedrijke Florentijnse geslachten. Lorenzo Tornabuoni was een veelzijdig getalenteerde neef van Lorenzo de? Medici, de machtigste man van de stad. Giovanna was een van de knapste dochters van de welvarende patrici

What is art history? Why, how, and where did it originate, and how have its methods changed over time? The history of art has been written and rewritten since classical antiquity. Since the foundation of the modern discipline of art history in Germany in the late eighteenth century, debates about art and its histories have intensified. Historians, philosophers, psychologists, and anthropologists among others have changed our notions of what art history has been, is,and might be.

This antholog...