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Review: Españoles en la corte de los Medici: Arquitectura y política en tiempos de Cosimo I, by Carlos Plaza

2018; University of California Press; Volume: 77; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jsah.2018.77.4.476

2150-5926

Jésús Escobar,

Historical Art and Architecture Studies

Book Review| December 01 2018 Review: Españoles en la corte de los Medici: Arquitectura y política en tiempos de Cosimo I, by Carlos Plaza Carlos PlazaEspañoles en la corte de los Medici: Arquitectura y política en tiempos de Cosimo IMadrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2016, 562 pp., 60 color and 165 b/w illus. €33.66, ISBN 9788415245568 Jesús Escobar Jesús Escobar Northwestern University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2018) 77 (4): 476–477. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2018.77.4.476 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Jesús Escobar; Review: Españoles en la corte de los Medici: Arquitectura y política en tiempos de Cosimo I, by Carlos Plaza. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 December 2018; 77 (4): 476–477. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2018.77.4.476 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search Recent research about early modern Spanish Italy has yielded fruitful results for architectural history. For instance, we now know more about a Castilian cardinal's patronage of Donato Bramante in Rome, and we have new evidence of correspondence between viceroys and a Spanish king about building a royal palace in Naples.1 Carlos Plaza's Españoles en la corte de los Medici also contributes new knowledge about Spanish patrons of architecture in Florence during that city's transformation by Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–74) and his successors into the site of a ducal court. This is a book with many protagonists, beginning with Cosimo, his first wife, Eleanora of Toledo (1522–62), and his sons Francesco I (1541–87) and Ferdinando I (1549–1609). The cast of characters expands to include three Spaniards whose Florentine palaces form the core of the study: the courtiers Antonio Ramírez de Montalvo (d. 1581) and Fabio Arrazola de Mondragón (1530/35–86),... You do not currently have access to this content.