"Luxury Arts of the Renaissance" sumptuously illustrates the stunningly beautiful objects that were the most prized artworks of their time, restoring to the mainstream materials and items long dismissed as 'extravagant trinkets'. By re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, Belozerskaya demonstrates how these glittering creations constructed both the world and the taste of the Renaissance elites.
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"Luxury Arts of the Renaissance" sumptuously illustrates the stunningly beautiful objects that were the most prized artworks of their time, restoring to the mainstream materials and items long dismissed as 'extravagant trinkets'. By re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, Belozerskaya demonstrates how these glittering creations constructed both the world and the taste of the Renaissance elites.
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Near fine in near fine jacket. Illustrated in color and in black and white. vii, 279 pages. Square 4to, printed pictorial boards, d.w. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, (2005). Near fine in a near fine dust wrapper.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Size: 11x9x1; Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition. 1st printing (no later printings indicated). Clean and tight. No markings. Ships in a box. Ships from NYC.
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New. 0892367857. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened--288 pages; 189 color and 26 b/w illustrations. Description: "Today we associate Renaissance arts with painting, sculpture, and architecture. Yet gem-studded goldwork and richly embellished armor; splendid tapestries, embroideries, and textiles; ephemeral multimedia spectacles; and other opulent creations were consistently more celebrated by contemporaries. Thus, Isabella d'Este, Marchesa of Mantua, bequeathed to her children vases of semiprecious stones mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, antique bronzes, and marbles. Her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings! This distribution underscores Renaissance aesthetic preferences and cultural values: finely-wrought luxury artifacts were extolled for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components, while paintings and sculptures in modest materials were considered of lesser consequence. Luxury Arts of the Renaissance endeavors to return to the mainstream materials long overlooked due to historical and ideological biases. The author traces luxury arts from their status as markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to their subsequent marginalization as extravagant trinkets unworthy of the status of art. By re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, Belozerskaya demonstrates how sumptuous creations constructed both the world and taste of Renaissance elites. Without these art forms the study of Renaissance arts is impoverished and history misrepresented. "--with a bonus offer--
