Private Lives In Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family - Couverture rigide

Brown, Patricia Fortini

 
9780300102369: Private Lives In Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300102364 ISBN 13 : 9780300102369
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant façades of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals and examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed.
Illustrated with hundreds of varied and unusual images, the book provides a lively picture of the aristocratic lifestyle during a period of changing definitions of nobility. The author considers such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, and the visual culture of Venetian women―how they decorated their homes, dressed, undertook domestic tasks, entertained, and raised their children. Recapturing the interplay between the public and private, she offers an account of Venetian households unequalled in vividness and detail.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patricia Fortini Brown is professor and chair of the department of art and archaeology at Princeton University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300102364
ISBN 13 
9780300102369
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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