“…This book addresses the issue of the potential economic significance of the artistic heritage in an art city – more specifically Florence – taking as a concrete example for the purpose of scientific research the figure of the “artistic restorer” in the dual garb of economic agent and environmental and cultural resource for the city. …”

“…The resulting publication repesents a true cosmogony of the world of the two artists…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Drawing the city; About this book; The city in context; Introduction; Early views of the city; The Renaissance and perspective; Artists and their visions of the city; Scale; Twentieth-century precedents and realized urban ideas; Representing the city in the twentieth century; The city as object; Introduction; Subject; Drawing; Observational sketching; Step by step: Sketching the Duomo, Florence; Step by step: Observational sketches on the go; Characterization; Step by step: Serial views through a city; Types of drawing; Plan; Section; Axonometric…”

“…The photographic images highlight the high artistic quality of glass containers and labels and underline the museum, as well as scientific, value of the collections…”

“…It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even popes, for three hundred years. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Ein Dokument für das bürgerliche Selbstverständnis der Zwischenkriegzeit / Le statut de l’artiste et son évolution dans le cadre de sa collaboration avec l’atelier Kirsch & Fleckner / Lecture session 5: chaired by Karine Boulanger -- Le vitrail au Chili: les multiples dimensions d'un art d'importation / Artist, glass-painters, craftsmen, and a dispute about their place in designing and executing stained glass at the beginning of the 20th Century / Lecture session 6: chaired by Aletta Rambaut -- Ancient remedies for new ideas. …”

“…Between the 11th and the 20th century, the monastery of San Miniato al Monte in Florence played a leading role in the religious and cultural life of the city. …”

“…It is a multi-authored work that discusses issues related to intellectual, literary and artistic proto-property by taking into account some of the main urban centers of pre-unitary Italy such as Venice, Milan and Rome. …”

“…Archival discoveries at Florence and Palermo have led to a new assessment of institutional patronage and private benefaction, and illuminated the formulation of altarpiece programmes, such as Peruginos Vallombrosan Assumption and Raphaels Lo Spasimo. …”

“…In the Italian city-states of Florence, Venice, and Mantua, artists and architects alike perfected existing techniques and developed new ones. …”