Inside the Renaissance house / Elizabeth Currie.

Main entry:

Currie, Elizabeth (Fashion designer)

Title & Author:

Inside the Renaissance house / Elizabeth Currie.

Publication:

London : V & A, 2006.

Description:

96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 94) and index.
A view into the Renaissance home -- The reception room and kitchen : the social life of the family --The bedroom : marriages, births, and everyday life -- The study : business and pleasure.

Summary:

"This book takes us on a tour of the Italian Renaissance house, room by room, conveying just what it was like to live there. As an outward symbol of the family's status, wealth and erudition, much care and trouble went into its arrangement and furnishing, and the art of household management. The Renaissance house was one in which the secular gradually assumed as much importance as the sacred, as this book illustrates. It conveys through contemporary illustrations and a lively text the realities of living in Florence and Venice during the Renaissance."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9781851774906 (hbk.)
1851774904 (hbk.)

Subject:

Interior decoration Italy History To 1500.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance Italy.
House furnishings Italy History To 1500.
Décoration intérieure Italie Histoire Jusqu'à 1500.
Décoration et ornement de la Renaissance Italie.
Ameublement Italie Histoire Jusqu'à 1500.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance
House furnishings
Interior decoration
Interieurkunst.
Kulturhistoria Europa.
Kulturhistoria Italien Renässansen.
Inredning historia Europa.
Italy
Florence.
Venetië (stad)
Florens.
Venedig.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
History

Added entries:

Victoria and Albert Museum.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252991
Call No.: BIB 181277
Status: Available

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