Dale Kent
Cosimo de’ Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron's Oeuvre
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1999.
544 pp.; 40 color ills.; 148 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(0300081286)
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February 18, 2002
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Winner of CAA’s 2002 Charles Rufus Morey Book Award Dale Kent’s impressive study of Cosimo de’ Medici and patronage culture of the mid-fifteenth century is a welcome addition to Renaissance and Florentine studies. The last serious biography of Cosimo in English, by Kurt Gutkind, appeared in 1938. The Warburg Institute’s symposium that resulted in a volume of essays edited by Francis Ames-Lewis, Cosimo “il Vecchio” de’ Medici, 1389-1464 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) brought...