Catalog Number: 48421
Title: At Home in Renaissance Italy
Author:
ISBN: 1851774882
Description: ed. Marta Ajmar and Flora Dennis. London: Victoria & Albert
Museum, 2006. 28cm., cloth, ca. 416pp., 350 illus., most in color.
^Available November 2006^. ("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." Alternate title in the UK 'The Renaissance Home: Art
and Life in the Italian House 1400-1600' ")
Title: Inside the Renaissance House
Author: CURIE, ELIZABETH
ISBN: 1851774904
Description: London: Victoria & Albert, 2006. 27cm., pbk., 96pp., 80
color illus. ^Available November 2006^. ("The Renaissance home was an
outward symbol of a family's status, wealth, and learning, so much care
went into its arrangement and furnishing, as well as the art of
household management. Through contemporary paintings and drawings, this
fully illustrated book vividly conveys the reality of life in Florence
and Venice during the era. Taking readers on a room-by-room tour through
the Italian Renaissance house, from the sala (reception room) to the
bedchamber, author Elizabeth Currie focuses on each one's furnishings,
appearance, and use, offering a rare insight into the life of the
Renaissance family. Inside the Renaissance House is ideal for interior
design enthusiasts and historians of the everyday")
Title: Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the
Renaissance
ISBN: 1851774920
Description: Edited by Jeremy Aynsley and Charlotte Grant. London:
Victoria & Albert, 2006. 28cm., cloth, 260pp., 304 color illus.
^Available November 2006^. ("This innovative book examines the changing
ways in which the domestic interior has been represented in the West
over the last 500 years, looking at a rich array of depictions of the
home, including paintings, novels, television, film, diaries, sketches,
and photographs by such artists as Vermeer, Hogarth, Alfred Hitchcock,
Bill Brandt, and many others. Imagined Interiors features everything
from grand decorative schemes to simple cottages. I t takes a completely
new and original look at a subject not previously covered in this depth
and breadth")
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