‎Gauthiez Pierre‎
‎Florence‎

‎Florence and the Idea of Jerusalem‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 338 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:30 b/w, 107 col., 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503597867.‎

‎Summary From the time of Dante through the 17th century and beyond, Florence had a special relationship with the Biblical Jerusalem?with the idea, that is, of a city chosen by God to be a sign of human peace. This collection of essays traces the development of this 'Idea of Jerusalem' from the Divine Comedy and medieval Holy Land pilgrimages through the 1439 Council of Florence, Savonarola's end of the 15th-century preaching, and the astonishing project of Grand Duke Ferdinand I to transfer the Holy Sepulcher from Jerusalem to Florence. The volume also recalls the city's 19th- and 20th-century Jerusalem image. TABLE OF CONTENTS Timothy Verdon, Foreword Timothy Verdon, Introduction: Earthly City and 'Coelestis urbs'. Florence and the Idea of Jerusalem PART I: Biblical, historical, and cultural Background Timothy Verdon, Jerusalem in the Bible: Theology, Poetry, Identity Andrew Frisardi, Dante and Jerusalem Franco Cardini, Three 'Synoptic Journeys' to Jerusalem, 1384-1385 Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi, Solomon's Temple in the Writings of Jewish Humanists in the Renaissance Alexei Lidov, The Florentine Hierotopy of the Holy Land: Lo Scoppio del Carro and Re-Enactments of the Jerusalem Miracle of the Paschal Fire Gerhard Wolf, Jerusalem(s) in Florence: A Walk PART II: The 'Jerusalem moment' of the Florence Council Davide Baldi, Florence as New Jerusalem in the Documents of the Council (1439-1442) Marcello Garzaniti, The Council and the City of Florence as Seen by Russians in the 15th and 16th Centuries Alessandro Diana, Florence Between Athens and Jerusalem: Myth, Image, Reality Luca Calzetta, ?That Most Holy Although Unmovable Relic?: Ferdinando I and the Holy Sepulcher PART III: The Arts Ben Quash, ?In England's green and pleasant land?, The New Jerusalem in London Annette Hoffman, Wood, Water and Earth. The Legend of the Holy Cross in Santa Croce in Florence Lorenzo Gnocchi, Man in Heaven and the Heavenly Jerusalem on Earth: The St. John the Evangelist Sacristy in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence Diane Apostolos Cappadona, ??The smell of her consecrate lily?: The Madonna and Child as Conduit between the Earthly City and the Heavenly City in Florentine Medieval and Renaissance Art Maria Lidova, The Mosaic Icon of Maria Orans in San Marco and Byzantine Imagery in Florence Stefano Garzonio, The Image of Florence in Russian Poetry. From the Beautiful to the Sacred PART IV: Monastic Roots Martin Shannon CJ, The New Jerusalem as Compelling Vision: Monasticism and the Liturgy of Hope Giulio Conticelli, Florence and Jerusalem. Giorgio La Pira: A 20th-Century Witness for the Third Millennium Bernardo Francesco Maria Gianni OSB, The 'Vocation and Mystery' of Florence. A Prophetic Look at the New Jerusalem from San Miniato al Monte PART V: The Exhibition Timothy Verdon, The Exhibition New Jerusalem: A Contemporary Sacred Art Exhibition by Filippo Rossi and Susan Kanaga List of Abbreviations Author and Contributor Biographies Image Credits‎

‎Voyage d’étude à Florence, Pise, Sienne et la Toscane, automne 1969. 25 Planches gravées par les élèves de l’école d’Art de La-Chaux-de-Fonds.‎

‎ La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Ecole d’Art 1969, 260x270mm, 25 planches gravées en feuilles avec chemise toile rempliée rigide. Sous emboitage en toile de l’éditeur. Toutes les planches sont numérotées n.° 10 / 40. Planche 1: Florence 1 gravure par C. Rosselet. - Planche 2: Florence 3 gravures par F. Rebetez, J. C. Froideveaux et R. Desvoigues. - Planche 3: Florence 2 gravures par R. Lauper et P. A. Quilleret. - Planche 4: Florence 3 gravures par R. Rebetez et J. C. Froideveaux. Planche 5: Florence 2 gravures par E. Villemin et C. Rosselet. Planche 6: Florence 1 gravure par M. Bourrut. Planche 7: Florence 1 gravure par C. Neury. Planche 8: Florence 1 gravure par M. Bourrut. Planche 9: Florence 1 gravure par C. Neury. Planche 10: Florence 1 gravure par J. F. Douzé. Planche 11: Florence 1 gravure par C. Neury. Planche 12: Florence 1 gravure par F. Laurent. Planche 13: Florence 1 gravure par C. Rosselet. Planche 14: Sienne 2 gravures par F. Zurbuchen et M. Huber. Planche 15: Sienne 1 gravure par R. Desvoigues. Planche 16: Sienne 2 gravures par C. Resselet et P. Dubied. Planche 17: San Giuviniano Sienne 2 gravures par R. Rebetez et R. Desvoigues. Planche 18: Sienne 1 gravure par C. Rosselet. Planche 19: San Guivaniano 1 gravure par R. Desvoigues. Planche 20: San Guivaniano 2 gravures par P. A. Quilleret et F. Leuba. Planche 21: San Guivaniano 1 gravure par P. Dubied. Planche 22: San Giuvaniano 1 gravure par J. F. Douzé. Planche 23: Pise 1 gravure par R. Desvoigues. Planche 24: Pise 1 gravure par R. Desvoigues. Planche 25: Pise 1 gravure par J. C. Froidevaux. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf.‎

‎Archaeological Campaigns below the Florence Duomo and Baptistery, 1895-1980 ‎

‎, Brepols, 2013 Hardback, 536 p., 591 b/w ill. 124 colour ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9781905375523.‎

‎Based on the excavations of 1965-1980, this second volume in the series provides an overview of the medieval art and architecture that was found below the Florence Duomo and Baptistery Archaeological Campaigns below the Florence Duomo and Baptistery, 1895-1980 presents the results of one of the major archaeological campaigns of our times: the decade-long excavation below Florence's cathedral of S. Maria del Fiore. The book presents a cutaway vision of a great city that would be hard to match anywhere, exploring a site that was in use for 1500 years, from the founding of the Roman settlement of Florence to the burial there of Giotto and Brunelleschi. In terms of structures, the excavation uncovered a Roman house, an Early Christian basilica, a Carolingian crypt, and further rebuildings from the eleventh century and later. For artifacts, the findings constitute a virtual encyclopedia of ancient and medieval art in mosaics, frescoes, the grave of Florence's earliest documented saint, the first elaborate tomb of the Medici, and outstanding examples of Roman and medieval glass, metalwork, and ceramics. Forty-one specialists in material culture and archaeological science report on those finds in the book, and hundreds more illustrations are carried on the author's website, www.franklintoker.com. But the findings from below the Florence Duomo are not limited to art history. The Roman house gives a glimpse of life on the Italian peninsula in the half-millennium between Emperor Augustus and the Ostrogoth king Theodoric. The construction of a large basilica with its rich mosaic floor marks the evident revival of a battered city: a turn of events entirely unexpected from the few other fragments of early Florentine history that survive. The later additions to the church of S. Reparata (as the early cathedral was titled by then) also constitute rare remains from the turbulent centuries that followed. Archaeological Campaigns additionally caries the results of excavations at the Baptistery of Florence and digging to establish the construction history of S. Maria del Fiore. The excavation results for S. Reparata, S. Giovanni, and S. Maria del Fiore make a fundamental contribution to the history of a city that has itself contributed so much to western civilization‎

‎On Holy Ground: Liturgy, Architecture and Urbanism in the Cathedral and the Streets of Medieval Florence,‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Hardback, IV+324 p., 52 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9781905375516.‎

‎On Holy Ground: Liturgy, Architecture, and Urbanism in the Cathedral and in the Streets of Medieval Florence asks just one question: had the Florence Duomo never been excavated, what could we have known of the legendary cathedral of S. Reparata below it? The answer comes through the transcription of two key texts: one, never published until now, was written for the cathedral clergy around 1190; the other was composed around 1230, and printed just once, in the eighteenth century. English translations bring to life the liturgical year in medieval Florence, from the gorgeous pageantry of Christmas to the plaintive rites of Easter. The archaeological finds now make sense of the chapels, altars, and hallowed tombs that are cited in the texts. The volume then reconstructs the canonry (torn down around 1840), where the officiating priests lived, and the neighboring buildings on the cathedral square: a hospital, a school, and a prominent city gate that long ago disappeared, and a Baptistery, bishop's palace, and confraternity headquarters that are still standing. One chapter is devoted to the religious processions that ventured forth from S. Reparata to wind through the streets of Florence. Here the old texts are brought to life by the towers, bridges, churches, and monuments that survive from medieval Florence. The processional routes are examined for their social, political, and economic importance to the cathedral clergy, and the way the routes delineated the main lines of Roman Florence. The final chapter explores the food that poured onto the tables of the cathedral clergy from the farms and villages of the Florentine countryside. Altogether, the volume provides an exceptional look at the physical and spiritual impact of Florence's thousand-year-old cathedral in the age of Dante. Language : English, Latin.‎

‎Renaissance Florence in the Rhetoric of Two Popular Preachers Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444),‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2001 Hardback, XIV+344 p., 160 x 235 mm. ISBN 9782503511634.‎

‎The central purpose of this study is to examine the response of the preachers Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444) to the changes, the alternatives they offered and their attempts to direct the life of the laity. The preaching of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola and the period of his dominance (1494-1498) are a well-known chapter in the history of Renaissance Florence. However, comparatively less research has been done on Savonarola's predecessors, the mendicant preachers of Florence in the first half of the fifteenth century. The Dominican Giovanni Dominici (1356-1419) and the Franciscan Bernardino da Siena (1380-1444) were the most important of these preachers. Dominici's and Bernardino's sermons, as they appear in Tuscan reports (reportationes) of their preaching, are a valuable historical source. Written down by anonymous listeners, these are the major reports of sermons preached in fifteenth-century Florence before Savonarola. The reportationes are unique in that they transmit in full the actual preaching event and are not merely a doctrinal summary composed by the preacher. Many of these sermons are still in manuscript form, especially those of Dominici, which have never been studied in detail and remain unpublished to this day. Dominici and Bernardino were active in Florence at a time when broad legal, social and cultural changes were taking place. The central purpose of this study is to examine the response of these preachers to the changes, the alternatives they offered and their attempts to direct the life of the laity. The four principal chapters are devoted to the preachers' opinions on secular and ecclesiastical politics, education and humanism, morality and the family and the economy and usury (the role of the Jews), the discussion built around a comparison between the two preachers. Although they differed in their interests and in their style - the unbending Dominici concentrating on politics and culture while the more flexible Bernardino focused on morality and the economy - they shared ideologies. Languages : English, Italian.‎