APPROACH ITALIAN REN INT erior

Flora Dennis

ISBN 10: 1405161752 / ISBN 13: 9781405161756

Published by Wiley Jan 2008, 2008

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Neuware - This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance. - Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques - Expands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and reality - Examines under-studied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offers new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memory - Includes a wide range of primary sources from visual and material evidence to archival documents.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: APPROACH ITALIAN REN INT erior
• Publisher: Wiley Jan 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405161752
• ISBN 13: 9781405161756
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 8D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 231 grams

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Synopsis

This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance.

• Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques
• Expands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and reality
• Examines under-studied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offers new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memory
• Includes a wide range of primary sources from visual and material evidence to archival documents

About the Author

Marta Ajmar-Wollheim is Renaissance Course Tutor on the joint MA programme in History of Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art.

Flora Dennis is Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Royal Holloway).

Together they are co-curators of the museum’s major exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy (V&A, 2006) and editors of the accompanying publication.

Ann Matchette, also based at the V&A, is a Renaissance Course Tutor on the joint MA in History of Design with the RCA.