ART AND LOVE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY

Bayer, Andrea & Beverly Louise Brown & Nancy Edwards & Everett Fahy & Deborah L. Krohn & Jacqueline Marie Musacchio & Luke Syson & Dora Thornton & James Grantham Turner & Linda Wolk-Simon

ISBN 10: 0300124112 / ISBN 13: 9780300124118

Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2008

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9.25 X 1 X 12.25 inches; 376 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ART AND LOVE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300124112
• ISBN 13: 9780300124118
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

With contributions by Sarah Cartwright, Jessie McNab, J. Kenneth Moore, Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Wendy Thompson, and Jeremy Warren

 

Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition---dating from the early Renaissance---of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinary objects or exchanging them as gifts. This important volume is the first to examine the entire range of works to which Renaissance rituals of love and marriage gave rise and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. Some 140 works of art, dating from about 1400 to 1600, are discussed by a distinguished group of scholars and are reproduced in full color.

 

Marriage and childbirth gifts are the point of departure. These range from maiolica, glassware, and jewelry to birth trays, musical instruments, and nuptial portraits. Bonds of love of another sort were represented in erotic drawings and prints. From these precedents, an increasingly inventive approach to subjects of love and marriage culminated in paintings by some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, including Giulio Romano, Lorenzo Lotto, and Titian.

 

Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Exhibition Schedule:

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 11, 2008 – February 16, 2009)

 Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (March 15 – June 14, 2009)

About the Author

Andrea Bayer is Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.