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

Brown, Patricia Fortini

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ISBN 10: 0300102364 ISBN 13: 9780300102369

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

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

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Book by Brown Patricia Fortini

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0300102364
• ISBN 13: 9780300102369
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 312