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...Alessandro de' Medici was murdered. He had an obsessive desire for magnificenza and was determined to outdo his ancestor - which, in terms of cultural spending, he did. Never had art and secular politics been brought closer together than in late Medicean Florence. Cosimo's patronage dominated the production of visual meaning and the consumption of art in the city, rather as the ownership of a local TV station might help magnify the image of a determined and self-centered mayor...
Then there were the decorative arts: hard-stone (pietre dure) inlays, gems, tapestries. The tapestries in particular were a way of extracting the maximum visual punch from skilled labor: not only could they reproduce great designs at a fraction of the cost of painting, but they could also cover enormous surfaces with sumptuous effects. Monarchs loved them, setting up weaving factories in the Netherlands, France, Naples and Madrid. Naturally, the Medici had to have their own. Most elaborate of all were the pietre dure designs - fantastically elaborate inlays of jasper, lapis lazuli, serpentine and all manner of semiprecious stones, sawed...
More recently, theater groups have also begun to contemplate how to work more closely with other student arts, like dance, music and visual arts...
...Music, a Visual and Environment Studies concentrator, said she is also looking forward to the chance to make connections at the festival...
HRDC admitted its poor planning was a prime reason that a director could not be found. During the past few years, however, HRDC’s searches for suitable directors have often been marked by great difficulty. Unlike the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, whose concentrators benefit from a number of visiting professors, HRDC and drama-oriented students have no such department to easily attract visiting scholars. HRDC deserves greater institutional support to provide sufficient dramatic initiatives for drama students. To this end, the University should seek to form an undergraduate dramatic arts concentration...