At Home in Renaissance Italy: Art and Life in the Italian House 1400-1600 (E) - Hardcover

Ajmar, Marta; Dennis, Flora

 
9781851774883: At Home in Renaissance Italy: Art and Life in the Italian House 1400-1600 (E)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1851774882 ISBN 13: 9781851774883
Verlag: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2006

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At Home in Renaissance Italy draws together an impressive range of ideas and objects—from sumptuous paintings and textiles to kitchen utensils, popular prints, jewelry, and everyday dress—to reveal how the homes of the upper- and middle-classes made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts in 15th- and 16th-century Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including contemporary letters, inventories, and archaeological surveys, it offers a completely fresh and in-depth exploration of the fascinating domestic world of Renaissance Italy.

This fascinating, innovative book is sure to become a key reference and visual resource for students of art and design, history and archaeology, and anyone with an interest in the everyday life and material culture of the Italian Renaissance. At Home in Renaissance Italy draws together an impressive range of ideas and objects—from sumptuous paintings and textiles to kitchen utensils, popular prints, jewelry, and everyday dress—to reveal how the homes of the upper- and middle-classes made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts in 15th- and 16th-century Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including contemporary letters, inventories, and archaeological surveys, it offers a completely fresh and in-depth exploration of the fascinating domestic world of Renaissance Italy.

This fascinating, innovative book is sure to become a key reference and visual resource for students of art and design, history and archaeology, and anyone with an interest in the everyday life and material culture of the Italian Renaissance.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marta Ajmar is curator of the exhibition The Renaissance Home and is Exhibition Curator and Course Tutor in the Research Department at the V&A, specialising in the Italian Renaissance. Flora Dennis is a Research Fellow at the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, She is also a contributor to Imagined Interiors (V&A 2006).

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Verlag
Victoria & Albert Museum
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1851774882
ISBN 13 
9781851774883
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
420
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