Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Italian Art and Decoration

Rosanna Pavoni (editor), translated by Adrian Belton

ISBN 10: 0521481511 / ISBN 13: 9780521481519

Published by Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture series), 1997

About this Item

8 academic contributions (See Contents picture) - not clear if all have been translated but there is no reference to a previous Italian-language version. Quarto-size, 298 pages (xiv, 284), index; publisher's black cloth with gilt titles on the spine; black and orange pictorial dust-jacket. Fine, unread, no writing, markup, labels or other defacements; unclipped jacket. Pictures show this actual book. UK orders are post-free. Heavy book - extra charges will be needed for shipment outside the UK (packed weight 1.1 kg).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reviving the Renaissance: The Use and Abuse of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Italian Art and Decoration
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture series)
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521481511
• ISBN 13: 9780521481519
• Binding: Hardcover/Hardback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Printing: First printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • History & Biography
  • Architecture. Building and Interiors
  • Art, Painting, Photography, Printmaking &c.

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Synopsis

This book offers an account of neo-Renaissance taste and style in Italy during the second half of the nineteenth century, and of the ways in which the Renaissance was enlisted in the search for Italian national identity. Contributions are included on art, architecture, town planning, and on more everyday topics such as fashions and furnishings. The successful dissemination of Renaissance design is also examined, through art schools, fashion magazines, historical painting and photography.