Number 12 | October-December 2011 | BUY THE MAGAZINE

Florence, the perfect society

Medici, Tornabuoni, Strozzi... It is difficult to dissociate the name of these bankers of patronage. Art and money could easily overlap in the Florentine Quattrocento, where the precursors of the financial system were those who carried out the Renacimento cultural corporations. Professor Dora Liscia reflects on the myth of patrons because of the Money and Beauty exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi.

By Dora Liscia
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