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May 23, 2006
Stephen J. Campbell and Stephen J. Milner, eds. Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City Cambridge University Press, 2003. 386 pp.; 88 b/w ills. Cloth $95.00 (0521826888)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2006.49

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Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City brings together twelve commissioned essays, the impetus for which was the conference that accompanied the exhibition, “Florence and the 1470s: Contexts and Contrasts,” curated by Patricia Rubin and Alison Wright in 1999 at the National Gallery in London. It was during this conference that the importance of the recurring concepts of cultural translation and exchange became evident to Campbell and Milner. The volume scrutinizes these...