portraiture and patronage in quattrocento florence with special reference to the tornaquinci and

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PORTRAITURE AND PATRONAGE
IN QUATTROCENTO FLORENCE
WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO
THE TORNAQUINCI AND THEIR CHAPEL
IN S. MARIA NOVELLA
PATRICIA SIMONS
VOLUME II
THESIS PRESENTED FOR
THE DEGREE OF
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Department of F;ne Arts
Un;vers;ty of Melbourne
March, 1985.
VOLUME II
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abbreviations 1
Bibliography 2
Notes to Chapter One 27
Notes to Chapter Two 42
Notes to Chapter Three 89
Notes to Chapter Four 124
Notes to Chapter Five 154
Notes to Chapter Six 193
Notes to Chapter Seven 217
Notes to Conclusion 252
List of Plates and Figures 253
Figures and Plates after 258
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ABBREVIATIONS
All archival references are to the Archivio di Stato, Florence (ASF),
unless otherwise indicated. All dates cited are New Style.
Archival Citations
App : Appendice
Bib Laur : Biblioteca Laurenziana
Bib Ricc : Biblioteca Riccardiana
BNF : Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze
Cat : Catasto
Comp Sopp : Compagnie Religiose Soppresse
Conv Soppr : Con venti Soppressi
Copia : Copia di Catasto Monte
CS : Carte Strozziane
Dec Rep: Decima Repubblicana
Magl : Magliabechiana
MAP: Mediceo Avanti il Principato
MSS : Manoscritti
NA : Notaril e Antecos i mi ano
on : oncie (ounces)
Pupilli : Pupilli avanti il Principato
Tratte : Tratte, Libro dell lEta
Other Citations
AB : The Art Bulletin
AH : Art H;story
ASI : Arch;v;o Storico Italiano
BB Central : B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central
Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968.
BB Drawings: B. Berenson, Drawings of the Florentine Painters.
Amplified Edition. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938.
BB Florentine: B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance.
Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963.
BM : Burlington
Ma~azine
TIel i Zl e : De J 1 Zl eeg J 1 erudi ti toscani . Edited by 1. di San Luigi.
Florence, 1770-1789.
GazBA : Gazette des Beaux Arts
JSAH : Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
JWCf : Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
MTttFlor : Mitteilungen des Kunsth;storischen Instituts in Florenz
MOPH : Monumenta Ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum Historica
PrOtocolli : Protocolli del Carteggio di Lorenzo il Magnifico per gli
anni 1473-74, 1477-92. Ed;ted by M. del piazzo. Florence, 1956.
RenQ : Renaissance Quarterly
Vasari-Milanesi : Giorgio Vasari, Le vite del pi~ eccellenti pittori,
scul tori ed archi tettori . Edi ted by G. Mil anes; . Florence,
1878-81.
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