Bocchi

Title: Bocchi
Description: Francesco Bocchi’s ‘Le Bellezze della città di Fiorenza’ (1591) is one of the earliest guidebooks for the city of Florence, a primer for directing the readers’ gaze towards art, and for guiding them on how to discern beauty.

Bocchi surveyed paintings and sculptures in churches, palaces and public spaces, providing the richest amount of art historical data for sixteenth-century Florence. This map layer builds upon the data that Jasmine Proteau, researcher on the DECIMA project (University of Toronto), mapped in 2018 (link: https://decima-map.net/maps/the-beauties-of-florence/) and constitutes an entry point into the source’s rich content. Only occasionally does Bocchi provide precise locations of individual altarpieces within churches, or private artworks inside palaces, which we plan to map in the future. Choose the Buonsignori map as the base layer for the exploration of this layer to see the data plotted against a coeval representation of the city of Florence.
Is Part Of: City Descriptions: Text and Image; Arts of Florence
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