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Article: Die Villen von Siena und ihre Bauherren: Architektur und Lebenswirklichkeit im fruhen 16. Jahrhundert.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2007
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Gerda Bodefeld. Die Villen von Siena und ihre Bauherren: Architektur und Lebenswirklichkeit im fruhen 16. Jahrhundert.
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag GmbH, 2003. 216 pp. illus. tbls. map. gloss. bibl. [euro]49. ISBN: 3-496-01273-0.
Gerda Bodefeld's book brings welcome attention to the architectural achievements of Siena in its territory outside the city during the years before the republic fell to Florence in 1555. It is now recognized that Siena's art of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries--especially in panel and fresco painting, but also in sculpture and urban planning and architecture--was brilliant, elegant, and innovative. Compared to its rival ...