Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior Sources, Methodologies, Debates [Paperback]

This collection provides 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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• 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

Editorial: John E. Law.

1. Approaching The Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates: Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Flora Dennis and Ann Matchette.

2. 'Contrary To The Truth And Also To The Semblance Of Reality'? Entering A Venetian 'Lying-In' Chamber (1605): Patricia Allerston.

3. Sacred To Secular, East To West: The Renaissance Study And Strategies Of Display: Maria Ruvoldt.

4. Domestic Sacral Space In The Florentine Renaissance Palace: Philip Mattox.

5. Bathing All'antica: Bathrooms In Genoese Villas And Palaces In The Sixteenth Century: Stephanie Hanke.

6. To Have And Have Not: The Disposal Of Household Furnishings In Florence: Ann Matchette.

7. Creating Sacred Space: The Religious Visual Culture of the Renaissance Venetian Casa: Margaret A. Morse.

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