The Arte della Lana was the wool guild of Florence during the Late Middle Ages and in the Renaissance. It was one of the seven Arti Maggiori ("greater...
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Arti Minori ("minor trades") were artisans and locally based. The Arte della Lana was the wool guild, also one of the Arti Maggiori. City Livery Company...
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derived from the textile trade guided by the wool guild of Florence, the Arte della Lana. Like other families ruling in Italian signorie, the Medici dominated...
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Most of them were members of the influential woolen cloth guild, the Arte della Lana. They had plans long before Michelangelo's involvement to commission...
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Florence Cathedral (redirect from Cantoria di Luca della Robbia)
in Santa Reparata, the project gained a new impetus. In 1331, the Arte della Lana, the guild of wool merchants, took over patronage for the construction...
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of the 14th century, Italy predominated. The Florentine wool guild, Arte della Lana, sent the imported English wool to the San Martino convent for processing...
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small network that controlled the great cloth-working Arti: the Arte della Lana, the Arte di Calimala, the guild of cloth finishers and merchants in foreign...
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Andrea was knighted by René of Anjou. In 1437 he was Consul of the ''Arte della Lana'' and Prior of the Arts in 1439. In 1429 he commissioned the Pazzi...
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accounts of Luca della Robbia's youth, training, and early works. He was born in Florence, the son of a member of the Arte della Lana (wool-workers guild)...
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bronze statue of saint Stephen by Lorenzo Ghiberti, completed for the Arte della Lana guild in 1427–28. It is now in the Museo di Orsanmichele, although...
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