Portraits and masks in the art of Lorenzo de' Medici, Botticelli, and Politian's 'Stanze per la Giostra.'.

Renaissance Quarterly | March 22, 1999| | Copyright

Il Lasca and Vasari both report that Lorenzo de' Medici reshaped the traditional Florentine civic celebrations attending events such as the official welcoming of a distinguished visitor, or feasts such as San Giovanni, Calendimaggio, and in particular Carnevale, with the invention of new forms of poetic presentation and musical performance called mascherate (masques) and canti, or canti carnascialeschi.(1) This does not mean that the wearing of fancy dress and masks in public festivals had not occurred earlier in Florence and in Italy during the Trecento and Quattrocento, as ...

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