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Article: Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: the Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada. (Reviews).
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2002
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Lynette M. F. Bosch. Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo: the Mendoza and the Iglesia Primada
University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. xii + 292 pp. + 9 color pls. $65. ISBN: 0-271-01968-9.
The decoration of Spanish Renaissance manuscripts literally has been marginalized by modern historians, but Bosch demonstrates that patrons regarded this as a "central" art form. She reconstructs the production and significance of manuscripts commissioned during the later fifteenth century by members of the powerful Mendoza family. In the process, she considers many political, cultural, and spiritual factors that shaped the milieu in ...