Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family / Patricia Fortini Brown.
Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family / Patricia Fortini Brown.
Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family / Patricia Fortini Brown.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
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NQ306.47086/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 312 p. : col. ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Contents
1. The title of their gentility -- 2. Not having the name of Palazzo -- 3. To live nobile -- 4. The mirror of ancient ladies -- 5. The game of life -- 6. A paradise of Venus -- 7. Not one but many separate cities -- 8. Theaters of the world -- App. Family trees.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c2004.
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State Reference Library copy: to be issued at supervised use area.
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Summary
"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...
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Private lives in Renaissance Venice : art, architecture, and the family / Patricia Fortini Brown.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2004.
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NQ306.47086/1
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74VKwKNx7z6d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKwKNx7z6d
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ISBN
0300102364 (alk. paper)
9780300102369 (cl : alk. paper)
0300102364 (cl : alk. paper)
9780300102369 (alk. paper)
DDC
306.4708621094531
MMS ID
991018298539702626
