350 full-color illustrations, 420 pages, 9 3/4x11 1/4"
Hardcover with jacket
ISBN: 1-8517-7488-2
EAN: 9781851774883
US $85.00
November 2006
Availability: In Stock
$85.00
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.
Marta Amjar is curator of the exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy and works in the research department at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Flora Dennis is a research fellow at the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, and a contributor to the book Imagined Interiors.
