Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment book by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu

Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu

ISBN 10: 178130033X / ISBN 13: 9781781300336

Editore: Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015

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• Titolo: Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment book by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu
• Editore: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 178130033X
• ISBN 13: 9781781300336
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Like New
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • All Things Art
  • Graphic Arts and Decorative Arts

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Riassunto

With over 300 works discussed, this book takes us on a dazzling visual adventure through the decorative arts, from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronze and maiolica to the elaborate tablewares and personal adornments available to shoppers in the Age of Enlightenment. Illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs, many unfamiliar and hitherto unseen gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Applied Arts collection are here published for the first time.

Informazioni sugli autori

Melissa Calaresu is the Neil McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She has written on the cultural history of the Grand Tour, urban space, ice cream, and street-vending in early modern Italy, with a particular focus on Naples. She is co-editor of Exploring Cultural History: Essays in Honour of Peter Burke (2010), New Approaches to Naples c.1500-c.1800: The Power of Place (2013), and Food Hawkers: Selling in the Street from Antiquity to the Present Day (2015). With Victoria Avery and Mary Laven, she also co-edited Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (PWP, 2015), which accompanied the Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition.

Victoria Avery has been Keeper of European Sculpture & Decorative Arts at the Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, since 2010 prior to which she was Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick. Vicky has lectured and published widely on all aspects of the decorative arts and sculpture, most recently Michelangelo: Sculptor in Bronze (2018); and is leading a new digital research project, Representations of Black People in European Sculpture, 1450-1950. Vicky has curated numerous interdisciplinary exhibitions, including Treasured Possessions (2015); Madonnas & Miracles (2017); and Feast & Fast (2019-2020), from which she is co-editing a multi-author volume, The pineapple from domestication to commodification: Re-presenting a global fruit, for the Proceedings of the British Academy (2024).