Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates: 2 (Renaissance Studies Special Issues) - Softcover

 
9781405161756: Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates: 2 (Renaissance Studies Special Issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1405161752 ISBN 13: 9781405161756
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007

Synopsis

This collection provides a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance.

  • Brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques
  • Expands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and reality
  • Examines under-studied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offers new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memory
  • Includes a wide range of primary sources from visual and material evidence to archival documents

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About the Author

Marta Ajmar-Wollheim is Renaissance Course Tutor on the joint MA programme in History of Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art.

Flora Dennis is Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Royal Holloway).

Together they are co-curators of the museum’s major exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy (V&A, 2006) and editors of the accompanying publication.

Ann Matchette, also based at the V&A, is a Renaissance Course Tutor on the joint MA in History of Design with the RCA.

From the Back Cover

The Renaissance interior is increasingly becoming a focus of historical debate. This volume brings together recent research drawing on the perspectives of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques. Through a shared interest in domestic practice, the collection expands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and reality. Essays examine understudied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offer new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memory. Firmly grounded on a wide range of primary sources – ranging from visual and material evidence to archival documents – these contributions provide a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance.

From the Inside Flap

The Renaissance interior is increasingly becoming a focus of historical debate. This volume brings together recent research drawing on the perspectives of an interdisciplinary group of scholars, combining innovative approaches, case studies, and methodological critiques. Through a shared interest in domestic practice, the collection expands the discourse on the Renaissance home, ultimately challenging traditional notions of public and private, interior and exterior, ideals and reality. Essays examine understudied spaces of the interior, such as baths and chapels, and offer new insights into more familiar topics such as identity, status, and family memory. Firmly grounded on a wide range of primary sources – ranging from visual and material evidence to archival documents – these contributions provide a genuinely fresh outlook on the Italian interior and will form a rich resource for scholars and students of the Renaissance.

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1405161752
ISBN 13 
9781405161756
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
144
Editor
Ajmar-Wollheim Marta, Dennis Flora, Matchette Ann