Brown, Patricia Fortini, 1936- author.

Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family / Patricia Fortini Brown.

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2004]

vii, 312 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

"This book offers a perspective on the private lives and material culture of aristocratic families in sixteenth-century Venice. Art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant, closed doors of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals - the homes of families who wished to live in a noble manner. She examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed." "As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture." -- From book jacket.

0300102364 (alk. paper)
9780300102369 (alk. paper)

Decoration and ornament Social aspects Italy Venice.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance Italy Venice.
Interior decoration Italy Venice History 15th century.
Interior decoration Italy Venice History 16th century.
Upper class families Homes and haunts Italy Venice.
Décoration et ornement Aspect social Italie Venise.
Décoration et ornement de la Renaissance Italie Venise.
Décoration intérieure Italie Venise Histoire 15e siècle.
Décoration intérieure Italie Venise Histoire 16e siècle.
Familles de la classe supérieure Résidences et lieux familiers Italie Venise.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance
Interior decoration
Manners and customs
Alltag
Malerei
Elites.
Dagelijks leven.
Interieurkunst.
Materiële cultuur.
Decoració i ornamentació arquitectòniques Itàlia Venècia S. XV-XVI.
Decoració i ornamentació Història.
Família Itàlia Edat moderna.
Vida privada Itàlia Venècia S. XV-XVI.
Alltag <Motiv>
Venice (Italy) Social life and customs.
Venise (Italie) Mœurs et coutumes.
Italy Venice
Venedig
Venècia (Itàlia) Vida social i costums Història.

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 232710
Cote: NK1452.V4 B76 2004
Statut: Disponible