About this title: This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant facades of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals and examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life, as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed. Illustrated with a wealth of varied and unusual images, the book provides a lively picture of the aristocratic lifestyle during a period of changing definitions of nobility. The ...
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Binding: HC
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
Date Published: (2004)
ISBN-13:9780300102369ISBN:0300102364
Description: B&W and color illustrations. Fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover) 312pp. ISBN 0300102364 This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of aristocratic families in sixteenth-century Venice. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 2004-07-01
ISBN-13:9780300102369ISBN:0300102364
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: YALE UNIV PR
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780300102369ISBN:0300102364
Description: New. This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant facades of grand palaces... read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2004-07
ISBN-13:9780300102369ISBN:0300102364
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