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Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy
by Luke Syson ; Dora Thornton
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Getty Publications
Weight: 3.38 pound
Dimension: H: 1 x L: 11.22 x W: 8.96 inches
ISBN 10: 0892366575
ISBN 13: 9780892366576
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You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and 'character' was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines the complicated relationships between the so called 'fine arts' painting and sculpture and artifacts of other kinds for which artistry might be as important as utility furniture, jewelry, and vessels made of gold, silver, and bronze, precious and semi precious stone, glass, and ceramic. The works discussed were designed and made by artists as famous as Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, and Michelangelo, as well as by lesser known specialists goldsmiths, gem engravers, glassmakers, and maiolica painters.

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