"This ravishing exhibit, which includes the first book printed in color (the 1579 marriage of the second duke of Tuscany to his Venetian mistress) is as much an engrossing history lesson as it is an examination of the human impulse to be remembered."

"It's tempting to think of these 60 exhibited volumes from across Italy as Renaissance scrapbooks, but they were much more. They were political documents, lavish self-promotional billboards aimed at asserting the wealth and stature of the host."

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