Private Lives in Renaissance Venice – Art, Architecture, and the Family – Patricia Fortini Brown

Tjis book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of aristocratic families in sixteenth-century Venice. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant, closed doors of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals – the homes of families who wished to live in a noble manner. She examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed.

Publisher: Yale University Press
Date Published: 2003
Publication Place: London

Condition: Very good

Jacket Condition: Very good.
Dimensions: Large 4to