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Art and love in Renaissance Italy / edited by Andrea Bayer [and others] ; with contributions by Sarah Cartwright [and others].

Bayer, Andrea.; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.); Kimbell Art Museum.
2008
N8220 .A78 2008
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Title
Art and love in Renaissance Italy / edited by Andrea Bayer [and others] ; with contributions by Sarah Cartwright [and others].
ISBN
9781588393012 (metropolitan museum of art (pbk.)
1588393011 (metropolitan museum of art (pbk.)
9781588393005 (metropolitan museum of art
1588393003 (metropolitan museum of art
9780300124118 (yale university press
0300124112 (yale university press
Published
New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
Copyright
©2008
Language
English
Description
xv, 376 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Call Number
N8220 .A78 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
709.45/0747471
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Note
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Nov. 11, 2008-Feb. 16, 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Mar. 15-June 14, 2009, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Bayer, Andrea.
Added Corporate Author
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Kimbell Art Museum.
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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.

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