At Home in Renaissance Italy
Published on 11. September 2006
Book
Hardback
420 pages
978-1-85177-488-3 (ISBN)
Description
This beautifully illustrated book is the first to look at the role of the urban Italian house in the development of Renaissance art and culture. "The Renaissance Home" brings together a wide range of objects, from furniture and kitchen utensils to popular prints, jewellery 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 inventories, account-books, letters, treatises, and archaeological and conservation reports, it offers a completely fresh exploration of the fascinating domestic world of Renaissance Italy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
V & A Publishing
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 260 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
2676 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85177-488-3 (9781851774883)
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Persons
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).