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The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400–1700
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ABSTRACT
Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home, this volume offers a distinct contribution to research on the early modern Italian domestic interior. Though the essays mainly take an art historical approach, the book is interdisciplinary in that it considers the social implications of domestic objects for family members of different genders, age, and rank, as well as for visitors to the home. By adopting a broad chronological framework that encompasses both Renaissance and Baroque Italy, and by expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, this collection offers genuinely new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction: Early Modern Domesticities: Integrating People, Spaces, Objects
part |2 pages
Part I Domesticities
chapter 1|14 pages
“Uno palaço belissimo”: Town and Country Living in Renaissance Bologna
chapter 2|14 pages
From Padua to Rome: Pietro Bembo’s Mobile Objects and Convivial Interiors Susan Nalezyty
chapter 3|18 pages
“A casa con i Sirani”: A Successful Family Business and Household in Early Modern Bologna
part |2 pages
Part II People, Spaces, and Objects
chapter 4|22 pages
Parenting in the Palazzo: Images and Artifacts of Children in the Italian Renaissance Home
chapter 6|18 pages
Art and Family Viewers in the Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Domestic Interior
part |2 pages
Part III Domestic Objects and Sociability
chapter 7|16 pages
Chi vuol esser lieto, sia: Objects of Entertainment in the Tornabuoni Palace in Florence
chapter 8|16 pages
Il mare di pittura: Domestic Pictures and Sociability in the Late Sixteenth-Century Venetian Interior
chapter 9|16 pages
Let’s Eat: Kitchens and Dining in the Renaissance Palazzo and Country Estate
chapter 10|16 pages
Silk-Clad Walls and Sleeping Cupids: A Documentary Reconstruction of the Living Quarters of Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara
chapter 11|14 pages
“All that is Seen”: Ritual and Splendor at the Montefeltro Court in Urbino
part |2 pages
Part IV Objectifying the Domestic Interior