San Lorenzo : a Florentine church / Robert W. Gaston and Louis A. Waldman, editors.

"Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies."

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Introduction / Robert W. Gaston -- A parish church and its community : changing perspectives for research in San Lorenzo's archive / Robert W. Gaston -- Church and community in a medieval Italian city : the place of San Lorenzo in Florentine society from late antiquity to the early fourteenth century / George Dameron -- The economic foundations of San Lorenzo : the early development of the mensa capitularis (ca. 1050-1350) / William R. Day Jr. -- San Lorenzo, the Medici, and the Florentine church in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / David S. Peterson -- Indagini archeologiche e scavi nel complesso Laurenziano / Francesco Baglioni -- The early liturgical books of San Lorenzo / John A. Stinson -- The liturgical manuscripts of San Lorenzo before the Medici patronage : artists, scribes, and patrons / Laura Alidori Battaglia and Marco Battaglia --^ The altarpieces of San Lorenzo : memorializing the martyr or accommodating the parishioners? / Christa Gardner von Teuffel -- Preaching at San Lorenzo / Peter Howard -- Mons sancti Laurentii : Problems in the construction of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence / Jack Wasserman -- Rimeditando sulle fonti brunelleschiane : dall'auctoritas romana alla rinascenza fiorentina / Pietro Ruschi -- Some issues of materiality and facture in San Lorenzo, Brunelleschi, and Florentine early Renaissance architecture / Marvin Trachtenberg -- Cori, tramezzi, cortine, vele nello spazio interno di San Lorenzo : tracce documentarie nel quattrocento / Riccardo Pacciani -- Face to face with angels : the early sculpted friezes (ca. 1446-1450) of the basilica of San Lorenzo / Matthew A. Cohen -- The lambs of San Lorenzo / Paul Barlosky -- The scuola di S. Lorenzo / Robert Black -- The Laurentian library : patronage and building history / Silvia Catitti -- San Lorenzo 1520 / William E. Wallace --^ Poetry in stone : Michelangelo's ducal tombs in the new sacristy / Jonathan K. Nelson -- Praise, blame, and history : the patronage of the Medici popes at San Lorenzo over five centuries / Sheryl E. Reiss -- Sacred space and architecture in the patronage of the first grand duke of Tuscany : Cosimo I, San Lorenzo, and the consolidation of the Medici dynasty / Emanuela Ferretti -- Pontormo e bronzino nel coro di San Lorenzo / Alessandro Cecchi -- Il culiseo de Paolo Giordano I Orsini in Piazza San Lorenzo : una festa romana nel cuore di Firenze / Barbara Furlotti -- La chiesa San Lorenzo tra due dinastie : la pubbliche cerimonie dai Medici ai Lorena / Francesca Fantappiè -- The cappella dei Principi under Ferdinando I de' Medici / Andrew Morrogh -- The female contribution : grand duchess Christine of Lorraine, the cappella dei principi, and the new high altar for San Lorenzo (1592-1628) / Christina Strunck --^ A corte e in capitolo : Apollonio Bassetti, segretario di Cosimo III dei Medici e canonico di San Lorenzo, e il priore Giovan Battista Frescobaldi / Francesco Martelli -- The Medici finale : the electress Palatine, Ferdinando Ruggieri, and the preservation of San Lorenzo / Elena Ciletti -- In search of litterae humaniores : presences and absences in the readership of the biblioteca Laurenziana / Paschalis M. Kitromilides -- Dopo l'unità d'Italia : la nascita del museo delle Cappelle Medicee fra spazio sacro e spazio museale / Monica Bietti -- Tempus tacendi, tempus loquendi : San Lorenzo 1849-1947 / Sonia Puccetti Caruso.

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary collection illuminates many previously unexplored aspects of the Basilica of San Lorenzo's history, extending from its Early Christian foundation to the modern era. Brunelleschi's rebuilt Basilica, the center of liturgical patronage of the Medici and their grand-ducal successors until the nineteenth century, is today one of the most frequently studied churches in Florence. Modern research has tended, however, to focus on the remarkable art and architecture from ca. 1400?1600. In this wide-ranging collection, scholars investigate: the urban setting of the church and its parish; San Lorenzo?s relations with other ecclesiastical institutions; the genesis of individual major buildings of the complex and their decorations; the clergy, chapels and altars; the chapter?s administration and financial structure; lay and clerical patronage; devotional furnishings, music, illuminated liturgical manuscripts, and preaching; as well as the annual or ephemeral festal practices on the site. Each contribution offers a profound exploration of its topic, wide-ranging in its chronological scope. One encounters here fresh archival research, the publication of relevant documents, and critical assessments of the historiography. San Lorenzo is represented in this volume as a living Florentine institution, continually reshaped by complex historical forces.