Art and love in Renaissance Italy / edited by Andrea Bayer ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Sarah Cartwright ... [et al.].
Language: English Publication details: New York : New Haven : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, 2008. Description: xv, 376 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 32 cmISBN: 9780300124118Subject(s): Art, Italian -- Exhibitions | Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Exhibitions | Marriage in art. -- Exhibitions | Love in art. -- ExhibitionsLOC classification: N 8220 .A78 2008| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vitali Hakko Kreatif Endüstriler Kütüphanesi | N 8220 .A78 2008 | Not for loan | 007326 |
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-364) and index.
Andrea Bayer -- Deborah L. Krohn -- Everett Fahy -- Jacqueline Marie Musacchio -- Linda Wolk-Simon -- Deborah L. Krohn -- James Grantham Turner -- Andrea Bayer -- Beverly Louise Brown -- Luke Syson -- Directors' foreword -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Contributors to the catalogue -- Introduction: art and love in Renaissance Italy / Marriage as a key to understanding the past / The marriage portrait in the Renaissance, or some woman named Ginevra / Wives, lovers, and art in Italian Renaissance courts / "Rapture to the greedy eyes": profane love in the Renaissance / CATALOGUE. Commemorating betrothal, marriage, and childbirth -- Rites of passage: art objects to celebrate betrothal, marriage, and the family / 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 / Paintings -- Drawings -- Books and prints -- Maiolica -- Bronzes -- Accessories -- The paintings of love and marriage -- From Cassone to Poesia: paintings of love and marriage / Picturing the perfect marriage: the equilibrium of sense and sensibility in Titian's Sacred and Profane Love / Belle: picturing beautiful women / Betrothal and marriage -- Family -- Widows -- The Camera: Spalliere and other paintings -- Illustrious women -- Belle Donne -- Mythologies and allegories.
"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.