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Download Donatello and Michelozzo: an Artistic Partnership and Its Donatello and Michelozzo: An Artistic Partnership and Its Patrons in the Early Renaissance., Ronald W. Lightbown, Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1980, 0199210241, 9780199210244, 460 pages. DOWNLOAD HERE On Leon Baptista Alberti his literary and aesthetic theories, Mark Jarzombek, 1989, Architecture, 258 pages. A penetrating study of Alberti's writings on philosophy, ethics, aesthetics architecture, and literature.. Donatello & Michelozzo an artistic partnership and its patrons in the early Renaissance, R. W. Lightbown, 1980, Art, 443 pages. Michelozzo, Volume 1 , Harriet McNeal Caplow, 1977, Art, 719 pages. Skulptur der Renaissance in Italien, Volume 1 , Joachim Poeschke, 1993, Art, 496 pages. Provides brief biographies and artwork analyses that explore the Renaissance period in sculpture. Florence A Portrait, Michael Levey, 1998, Art, 498 pages. 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Michelozzo's great friend and patron was Cosimo de' Medici, whom he accompanied to Venice in 1433 during his short exile. While at Venice, Michelozzo built the library of San Giorgio Maggiore, and designed other buildings there. In 1428, together with Donatello, he erected an open-air pulpit at an angle of the Cathedral of St. Stephen at Prato, designed for the regular public displays of their famous relic, the Girdle of Thomas (Sacra Cintola). The large Palazzo Medici in Florence, built by Cosimo, was designed by him; it is one of the noblest specimens of Italian fifteenth-century architecture, in which the great taste and skill of the architect has combined the delicate lightness of the earlier Italian Gothic with the massive stateliness of the classical style. With great engineering skill Michelozzo shored up, and partly rebuilt, the Palazzo Vecchio, then in a ruinous condition, and added to it many important rooms and staircases. When, in 1437, through Cosimo's liberality, the monastery of San Marco at Florence was handed over to the Dominicans of Fiesole, Michelozzo was employed to rebuild the domestic part and remodel the church. For Cosimo he designed numerous other buildings, most of them of noteworthy importance. Among these were a guest-house at Jerusalem for the use of Florentine pilgrims, Cosimo's summer villa at Careggi, and the fortified castello that he rebuilt from 1452 as the Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo in Mugello. For Giovanni de' Medici, Cosimo's son, he built a very large villa at Fiesole. 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