Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment book by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu
Language: English
Published by Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015
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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> It the significance of best and engaging reacted to the people who once moned them. With over son works discussed, the hock takes us on a darling visual adventure through the decorative arte, from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronte and maledics on 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 halite and expectations the glamour of the exotic, as witnessed in the last for objects imported from the East, the dipity of New World products like chocolate and sugat 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. The book deliberately juxtaposes luxury artefacts, such as an erotic Venetian bronze statuette, an Iznic jug with Elizabethan silver-gilt mount.…
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- Title
- Treasured Possessions: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment book by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu
- Author
- Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu
- Publisher
- Philip Wilson Publishers
- Publication year
- 2015
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 178130033X
- ISBN 13
- 9781781300336
- Seller catalogs
- All Things Art, Graphic Arts and Decorative Arts
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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.
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