Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
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Edited by Andrea Bayer; Andrea Bayer, Beverly Louise Brown, Nancy Edwards, Everett Fahy, Deborah L. Krohn, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Luke Syson, Dora Thornton, James Grantham Turner, and Linda Wolk-Simon
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With contributions by Sarah Cartwright, Jessie McNab, J. Kenneth Moore, Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, Wendy Thompson, and Jeremy Warren
Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition---dating from the early Renaissance---of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinary objects or exchanging them as gifts. This important volume is the first to examine the entire range of works to which Renaissance rituals of love and marriage gave rise and makes a major contribution to our understanding of Renaissance art in its broader cultural context. Some 140 works of art, dating from about 1400 to 1600, are discussed by a distinguished group of scholars and are reproduced in full color.
Marriage and childbirth gifts are the point of departure. These range from maiolica, glassware, and jewelry to birth trays, musical instruments, and nuptial portraits. Bonds of love of another sort were represented in erotic drawings and prints. From these precedents, an increasingly inventive approach to subjects of love and marriage culminated in paintings by some of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, including Giulio Romano, Lorenzo Lotto, and Titian.
Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 11, 2008 – February 16, 2009)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (March 15 – June 14, 2009)
Andrea Bayer is Curator in the Department of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (November 11, 2008 – February 16, 2009)
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth (March 15 – June 14, 2009)
“With nearly 600 illustrations between them, they offer extraordinary evidence of almost every aspect of daily life among the wealthy Florentines (and others) in the 15th century … They are very good; in their distillation of facts they are the new fundamental source books, the compendia to which every student of history and art history should first turn for information on the social rituals and associated furniture and artefacts of the wealthy Italian Renaissance household.” - Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard
Publication Date: November 25, 2008
Publishing Partner: Published in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art
75 b/w + 300 color illus.
