Description: Portraits, an inherently personal subject, provide an engaging entry point to an exploration of the politics, patronage, and power in Renaissance Florence
Review Quotes: "Cogent and illuminating."--Washington Post
"The exhibit is exciting to move through and to enjoy firsthand, but the original research and commentary in the catalogue will open up this world of Cinquecento Florence after your museum experience."--Anne Holler, The Florentine "Excellent."--Apollo "The catalogue is beautifully designed with more than two hundred colour reproductions. . . . Merely turning the pages . . . provides a vivid sense of Florence under the Medici, and the essays and entries are intellectually intriguing for art historians while still accessible for students and the larger interested public."--Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Renaissance and Reformation "A superb catalogue."--Robert B. Simon, Burlington Magazine "The sumptuous catalog . . . edited by Met curator Keith Christiansen and guest curator Carlo Falciani, contains glorious reproductions of all the works in the exhibition and brilliant, accessible scholarly essays."--Joe Phelan, American Conservative