marbled arts laura berrettini

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel. Joint leaders of the company, they too were among the first Christian martyrs. Most dramatically, there would have been no coherent early modern global artistic creation, just sporadic and circumscribed appearances with a large-scale infrastructure only emerging later, one that would have adhered to the code of other institutions, like the Protestant-inflected mercantile humanism propagated by the Dutch East and West India Companies during the seventeenth century. The painting, which had been believed lost, was tracked down in in the deposits of the Florentine collections, where it underwent further studies. One of the more ingenious aspects of the Exercises was that it was conceived as interactive, a practice made, not simply read.

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