An examination of the interconnections between society, art and memory in Renaissance Florence.

Art, Memory and Family in Renaissance Florence examines the relationship between the production of objects and the production of memory and history in fifteenth-century Florence. Recent studies of Florence by cultural, social, political and economic historians have resulted in a considerable knowledge of family life in this period and the significance of family, kin and neighborhood in the social and political life of the city. Investigating the means and modes of formulating and recording those relationships, the essays gathered in this study consider the interconnections among society, art and memory.

Introduction
Part I. Memory and its Materials: 1. The historical material of memory Patrick Geary
2. Family memory: functions, evolution, recurrences Giovanni Ciappelli
3. Family, memory, and history Nicolai Rubinstein
4. Poetry as politics and memory in Renaissance Florence and Italy Lauro Martines
Part II. The Imagery of Memory: 5. Art and the imagery of memory Patricia Lee Rubin
6. The memory of faces: representational choices in Florentine portraiture Alison Wright
7. Giovanni Benci's patronage of the nunnery, Le Murate Megan Holmes
8. Monument and memory in Renaissance Florence Andrew Butterfield
Part III. Family Identity: 9. Artisan family strategies: proposals for research on the families of Florentine artists Margaret Haines
10. Florentine palaces and the memories of the past Brenda Preyer
11. Memory of place: Luogo and lineage in the fifteenth-century Florentine countryside Amanda Lillie
12. Family values: sculpture and the family in fifteenth-century Florence Geraldine Johnson
Part IV. The Transmission of Memory: 13. Names, memory, public identity in late Medieval Florence Anthony Molho
14. The memory of exiled families: the case of the Strozzi Lorenzo Fabbri
15. Memoria and family in law Thomas Kuehn
16. Collective amnesia: family memory and the mendicants: a comment Samuel K. Cohn Jr.