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Among the sixty artists whose works are presented in this volume are towering figures of Western art such as Michelangelo

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Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy explore la and california Among the sixty artists whoseLuke Syson and Dora Thornton You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and character was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly