Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment book by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu

Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu

ISBN 10: 178130033X / ISBN 13: 9781781300336

Published by Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment book by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu
• Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 178130033X
• ISBN 13: 9781781300336
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • All Things Art
  • Graphic Arts and Decorative Arts

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Synopsis

This book explores the significance of beautiful and engaging objects―chosen, acquired, personalised and treasured―to the people who once owned them. With over 300 works discussed, it takes us on a dazzling visual adventure through the decorative arts, from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronze and maiolica to the elaborate tablewares and personal adornments available to shoppers in the Age of Enlightenment. En route the authors consider the impact of global trade on European habits and expectations: the glamour of the Eastern exotic, the ubiquity of New World products like chocolate and sugar, and the obsession with Chinoiserie decoration. They ask what decorative objects meant to their owners before the age of industrial mass production, and explore how technological innovation and the proliferation of goods from the sixteenth century onwards transformed the attitude of Europeans to their personal possessions. Illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs, many unfamiliar and hitherto unseen gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s Applied Arts collection are here published for the first time.

About the Author

Victoria Avery FSA is Keeper of Applied Arts at The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.She has published extensively on Italian Renaissance sculpture, and was awarded the Premio Salibeni 2012 for her monograph, Vulcan’s Forge in Venus’ City: The Story of Bronze in Venice, 1350–1650 (2011).

Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She has written on the Grand Tour, autobiographical writing, urban space, political reform and, most recently, the making and eating of ice cream in eighteenth-century Naples.