Art and love in renaissance Italy
(Adult Book)
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Published
New York : New Haven : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2008.
Edition
Hardback.
Physical Desc
xv, 376 pages ; ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Status
City Stack - Non-fiction
709.45
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709.45
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Published
New York : New Haven : The Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2008.
Format
Adult Book
Edition
Hardback.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Nov. 11, 2008-Feb. 16, 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Mar. 15-June 14, 2009, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--BOOK JACKET.
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