Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de Medici's Style
Orsi-Landini, Roberta
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Published by Edizioni Polistampa, 2011
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Roberta Orsi Landini uses material from the Florentine state archives to reconstruct Cosimo I de Medici's wardrobe, continuing her earlier work on Eleonora di Toledo. Cosimo consciously constructed his public and official image, and Orsi Landini follows his stylistic evolution over his thirty-year reign, including colors, materials and decorations. The author also examines manufacturing, especially silk producers, while a final chapter is dedicated to the funeral clothes of Cosimo I and his son, don Garcia, both of whom were paragons of fashion for their Italian contemporaries. An annex provides day by day detailed references to clothing created and worn in the court. Dual-language text: English and Italian.
About the Author: Roberta Orsi Landini, textile and costume scholar, has worked for over 20 years on the textile and costume collections at the Pitti Palace in Florence. She is author of numerous articles, essays and books and has collaborated with an array of public institutions and museums in Italy and abroad. From the onset of the Galleria del Costume in 1983 she has collaborated on several projects, exhibitions and publications, among which Moda alla corte dei Medici, on the conserved Medici burial clothes and I principi bambini, on court infant clothing. For the Stibbert Museum she conceived and curated the exhibition and catalog entitled L'abito per il corpo. Il corpo per l'abito, which confronted western and Islamic dress. Roberta instigated and oversaw for many years the didactic activities of the Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio and the Roberto Capucci Foundation in Florence. Her most recent book publication, Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: lo stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza, is a culmination of her meticulous and accurate detailed dress research on archival documents and coeval imagery. Forthcoming is her next book, Moda a Firenze 1540-1580 Lo stile di Cosimo I de' Medici
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Publisher: Edizioni Polistampa
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Soft cover
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Rilegato. Condition: new. Testo Italiano e Inglese.Firenze, 2011; ril., pp. 310, ill. col., tavv. col., cm 24x31. Lo stile di Eleonora di Toledo e la sua influenza (2005), the research project goes on, now with male clothing of the same period. Thanks to the papers from the Archivio di Stato of Florence, the author reconstructs the whole wardrobe of Eleonora's husband, Cosimo I de' Medici, day by day from 1544 until 1574, that is from the first time notes about the duke's clothes appeared in official documents till the death of Cosimo. The founder of the grand-ducal dynasty created his public image with great care and determination, but Roberta Orsi Landini focus attention as well on Cosimo I's personal tastes. The book describes fashion development in Florence through the analysis of items from the duke's wardrobe and makes confrontations with potrait-paintings in order to define when new styles started up and which were the most favourite colours, materials and decorations of the period. Besides, the manufacturers panorama is meticulously reconstructed. Synoptic tables illustrate every change during the forty years; they are also a great tool to date paintings. Moreover, the author reconstructs the paper patterns of Cosimo and his son don Garçia's burial gowns. Appendix includes daily off-the-peg clothes annotations, and lists amounts and materials in detail. Libro. Seller Inventory # 2139696
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