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This paper focuses on the way Medici patronage contributed to a dialogue between art and literature during the Renaissance. While Cosimo the Elder participated in the rediscovery of the texts of the Latin father of the second century Tertullian, the altarpiece of the private chapel of the family, executed by the Carmelite painter Filippo Lippi, was full of items inspired by Tertullian’s works. On the one hand, there was a particular interest in the Child’s flesh taken from the virginal body of Mary, as it was described in De Carne Christi. On the other hand, the desert as a prison - another theme specific to Tertullian’s theology - seems to take shape in the painting. Thus, this article highlights the way in which, through the image, Tertullian’s ideas were received and understood in Florence in the mid-fifteenth century.
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