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1 online resource (xv, 376 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-364) and index. |
| Contents |
Directors' foreword -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Contributors to the catalogue -- Introduction: art and love in Renaissance Italy / Andrea Bayer -- Marriage as a key to understanding the past / Deborah L. Krohn -- The marriage portrait in the Renaissance, or some woman named Ginevra / Everett Fahy -- Wives, lovers, and art in Italian Renaissance courts / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio -- "Rapture to the greedy eyes": profane love in the Renaissance / Linda Wolk-Simon -- CATALOGUE. Commemorating betrothal, marriage, and childbirth -- Rites of passage: art objects to celebrate betrothal, marriage, and the family / Deborah L. Krohn -- Maiolica of love and marriage -- Belle Donne, facing couples, and Fede -- The cruelty of love: Amor Crudel -- Marriage glassware -- Gifts and furnishings for the home -- Cassone panels and chests -- Manuscripts and books and the rituals of love and marriage -- Childbirth and family -- Profane love: the challenge of sexuality / James Grantham Turner -- Paintings -- Drawings -- Books and prints -- Maiolica -- Bronzes -- Accessories -- The paintings of love and marriage -- From Cassone to Poesia: paintings of love and marriage / Andrea Bayer -- Picturing the perfect marriage: the equilibrium of sense and sensibility in Titian's Sacred and Profane Love / Beverly Louise Brown -- Belle: picturing beautiful women / Luke Syson -- Betrothal and marriage -- Family -- Widows -- The Camera: Spalliere and other paintings -- Illustrious women -- Belle Donne -- Mythologies and allegories. |
| Summary |
"Many famous artworks of the Italian Renaissance were made to celebrate love, marriage, and family. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from early in the era, of commemorating betrothals, marriages, and the birth of children by commissioning extraordinary objects - maiolica, glassware, jewels, textiles, paintings - that were often also exchanged as gifts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of artworks arising from Renaissance rituals of love and marriage and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. The impressive range of works gathered in these pages extends from birth trays painted in the early fifteenth century to large canvases on mythological themes that Titian painted in the mid-1500s. Each work of art would have been recognized by contemporary viewers for its prescribed function within the private, domestic domain."--Jacket. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
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Love in art -- Exhibitions.
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Love in art. |
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Marriage in art -- Exhibitions.
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Marriage in art. |
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Renaissance. |
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Italy. |
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Art, Italian -- Exhibitions.
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Art, Italian -- Exhibitions. |
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Electronic books.
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Bayer, Andrea.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Kimbell Art Museum.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Art and love in Renaissance Italy. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 9781588393005 (DLC) 2008044262 (OCoLC)225875831 |
| ISBN |
9781588393005 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc) |
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1588393003 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (hc) |
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9781588393012 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (pb) |
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1588393011 (Metropolitan Museum of Art (pb) |
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9780300124118 (Yale University Press (hc) |
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0300124112 (Yale University Press (hc) |
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