Just a heads-up: The V&A will be publishing two books this October which look like they will contain a good few paintings of people within interiors from Renaissance Italy, to tie in with another exhibition. It does look like they also refer to dress and jewellery! "At Home in Renaissance Italy" "This beautifully illustrated book is the first to look so comprehensively at the role of the urban Italian house in the development of Renaissance art and culture. 'At Home in Renaissance Italy' brings together a wide range of objects, from furniture and kitchen utensils to popular prints, jewellery and everyday dress, revealing how the homes of the upper- and middle-classes made a crucial contribution to the flowering of the visual arts in 15th- and 16th-century Italy. Drawing on a wide array of sources including letters, treatises, inventories, account-books and archaeological and conservation reports, it offers a completely fresh exploration of the fascinating domestic world of Renaissance Italy." ISBN NUMBER 1851774890 "Inside the Renaissance House" "The Renaissance home was an outward symbol of a family’s status, wealth and erudition, and much care went into its arrangement and furnishing, and the art of household management. 'Inside the Renaissance House' vividly conveys through contemporary illustrations and lively writing the realities of living in Florence and Venice during this innovative era and takes the reader on a room-by-room tour. From the sala, devoted to games, music and entertaining in style, to the bedchamber, which was far from the private space it is today, to the study, full of rare and precious objects, Elizabeth Currie evokes the life that went on in each room." ISBN NUMBER 1851774904
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