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| Gondi coat of arms (source: http://www.gondi.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ storia_00.jpg) |
From January until March 2016, I stayed at the Dutch
Institute in Florence to conduct research for the Patrician Patronage Project (PPP). Allocated to me were the Gondi: as it turned out a rather
significant Florentine family that gendered several important patrons for the
arts in the sixteenth century. After indicating and registering the works of
art they owned and commissioned, I decided to investigate how this family’s
commissions and collections evidenced their position within the contemporary political
and cultural climate. An elaboration can be found in the form of a paper,
posted on this website.
