Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 2006
Eunice D. Howe. Art and Culture at the Sistine Court: Platina's "Life of Sixtus IV" and the Frescoes of the Hospital of Santo Spirito.
Studi e Testi 422. Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2005. 268 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $45. ISBN: 88-210-0771-5.
Eunice Howe's primary subject is the well-known and revered humanist scholar, Bartolomeo Platina (1421-81), the first librarian of the Vatican Library (1475), and the variety of distinctive artistic projects that he promoted, as well as helped plan, during the reign of Pope Sixtus IV (1471-84). Howe begins her book with an inf...
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