The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700 : Objects, Spaces, Domesticities.
Adopting a broad chronological framework and expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, this collection offers new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy. The volume's dual emphasi...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2013. |
| Series: | Visual culture in early modernity.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Early Modern Domesticities: Integrating People, Spaces, Objects; Part I Domesticities; 1 "Uno palaço belissimo": Town and Country Living in Renaissance Bologna; 2 From Padua to Rome: Pietro Bembo's Mobile Objects and Convivial Interiors; 3 "A casa con i Sirani": A Successful Family Business and Household in Early Modern Bologna; Part II People, Spaces, and Objects; 4 Parenting in the Palazzo: Images and Artifacts of Children in the Italian Renaissance Home.
- 5 The Venetian Portego: Family Piety and Public Prestige6 Art and Family Viewers in the Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Domestic Interior; Part III Domestic Objects and Sociability; 7 Chi vuol esser lieto, sia: Objects of Entertainment in the Tornabuoni Palace in Florence; 8 Il mare di pittura: Domestic Pictures and Sociability in the Late Sixteenth-Century Venetian Interior; 9 Let's Eat: Kitchens and Dining in the Renaissance Palazzo and Country Estate; 10 Silk-Clad Walls and Sleeping Cupids: A Documentary Reconstruction of the Living Quarters of Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara.
- 11 "All that is Seen": Ritual and Splendor at the Montefeltro Court in UrbinoPart IV Objectifying the Domestic Interior; 12 Objectifying the Domestic Interior: Domestic Furnishings and the Historical Interpretation of the Italian Renaissance Interior; 13 Recreating the Renaissance Domestic Interior: A Case Study of One Museum's Approach to the Period Room; Selected Bibliography; Index.