Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici and The Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century

The Authors : Maria Grazia Pernis has a Columbia Ph.D. in art history. She is the author of Le Platonism de Marsile Ficin et la Cour d'Urbin, and the co-author with Laurie Schneider Adams of Federico da Montefeltro and Sigismondo Malatesta : The Eagle and the Elephant (Peter Lang, 1996). She has published several articles, including "The Young Michelangelo and Lorenzo de' Medici's Circle," in Lorenzo de' Medici : New Perspectives (Peter Lang, 1993).
Pernis has also lectured widely on the influence of humanism and Neoplatonic philosophy on Renaissance art. Laurie Schneider Adams is Professor of Art History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the editor of Giotto in Perspective and the author of The Methodologies of Art, Italian Renaissance Art, Key Monuments of the Italian Renaissance, Key Monuments of the Baroque, Art and Psychoanalysis, Exploring Art, A History of Western Art, and Art Across Time.