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- catalog abstract ""This book offers a perspective on the private lives and material culture of aristocratic families in sixteenth-century Venice. Art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant, closed doors of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals - the homes of families who wished to live in a noble manner. She examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed." "As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13175282.
- catalog coverage "Venice (Italy) Social life and customs.".
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description ""This book offers a perspective on the private lives and material culture of aristocratic families in sixteenth-century Venice. Art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant, closed doors of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals - the homes of families who wished to live in a noble manner. She examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed." "As the sixteenth century opened, members of the patriciate were increasingly withdrawing from trade, desiring to be seen as "gentlemen in fact" as well as "gentlemen in name." The author considers why this was so and explores such wide-ranging themes as attitudes toward wealth and display, the articulation of family identity, the interplay between the public and the private, and the emergence of characteristically Venetian decorative practices and styles of art and architecture. Brown focuses new light on the visual culture of Venetian women - how they lived within, furnished, and decorated their homes; what spaces were allotted to them; what their roles and domestic tasks were; how they dressed; how they raised their children; and how they entertained. Bringing together both high arts and low, the book examines all aspects of Renaissance material culture."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-302) and index.".
- catalog description "The title of their gentility -- Not having the name of Palazzo -- To live nobile -- The mirror of ancient ladies -- The game of life -- A paradise of Venus -- Not one but many separate cities -- Theaters of the world.".
- catalog extent "viii, 312 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300102364 (cl : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Italy Venice".
- catalog spatial "Italy Venice.".
- catalog spatial "Venice (Italy) Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "306.4/7/08621094531 22".
- catalog subject "Decoration and ornament Social aspects Italy Venice.".
- catalog subject "Decoration and ornament, Renaissance Italy Venice.".
- catalog subject "Interior decoration Italy Venice History 15th century.".
- catalog subject "Interior decoration Italy Venice History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "NK1452.V4 B76 2004".
- catalog subject "Upper class families Homes and haunts Italy Venice.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The title of their gentility -- Not having the name of Palazzo -- To live nobile -- The mirror of ancient ladies -- The game of life -- A paradise of Venus -- Not one but many separate cities -- Theaters of the world.".
- catalog title "Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family / Patricia Fortini Brown.".
- catalog type "text".