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At Home in Renaissance Italy: Art and Life in the Italian House 1400-1600

At Home in Renaissance Italy: Art and Life in the Italian House 1400-1600
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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.


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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #309006 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-09-11
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 416 pages

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About the Author
Marta Ajmar is curator of the exhibition The Renaissance Home and is Exhibition Curator and Course Tutor in the Research Department at the V&A, specialising in the Italian Renaissance. Flora Dennis is a Research Fellow at the AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, She is also a contributor to Imagined Interiors (V&A 2006).