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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 461 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cm. Texts in Italian with one text in English and one in French. 'Textile furnishing, the art of dressing palaces , is one of the highest expressions of Baroque art. This first monumental volume in the series, available exclusively in Italian and aimed principally at students of art history, explores the multiple expressions of the theme. A special collaboration between the Vatican Museums, the Sapienza University of Rome and the Getty Research Institute has thus given rise to complex and diversified research on the sumptuous furnishings of palaces, both Roman and otherwise, reconstructed and analysed in detail thanks to a comprehensive study of archive documents, inventories and letters. The themes explored include: the use of textiles, leatherwork and tapestries in the Floreria of the Vatican Apostolic Palaces, in France and Rome between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the role of the wardrobe; the market in textiles and clothing in Rome and Venice during the seventeenth century; the Baroque furnishings of Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia and Palazzo Corsini; history and techniques in textile arts, with an excursus on seventeenth century female Roman fashion. Finally, there are detailed notes on some magnificent noble palaces, including Palazzo Barberini, Palazzo Spada and Palazzo Lancellotti. The volume is enhanced with exquisite photographs reproducing numerous details of the fabrics and screens, tapestries, works of art, views of rooms and antique maps.'.…