Private Lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecture, and the Family

by Patricia Fortini Brown

This book offers an engaging and original perspective on the private lives and material culture of patrician families in sixteenth-century Venice. Distinguished art historian Patricia Fortini Brown takes us behind the elegant fa ades of grand palaces built along the Venetian canals and examines the roles of both fine and applied arts in family life as well as the public messages that these impressive homes conveyed.
Illustrated with hundreds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300102364
• ISBN13: 9780300102369
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 4.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.0" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Private lives in Renaissance Venice: Art, Architecgture, and family

A very well documented book with a deep knowledge of the social conditions of Venice in the Renaissance period it covers. I found it a little bit dense sometimes. The illustrations are good. Hector Cardenas

Must-have for lovers of Renaisance Venice

Another great book about Renaissance Venice by Patricia Fortini Brown. Filled with many large colored pictures and black + white drawings, this book is a must for recreationists + others obsessed with 16th century Venice. Lots of information on the small details of daily life: art, architecture, music, furnishings, clothing, utensils, games of chance and fortune-telling. This author is one of the bests on the subject of daily life in Renaissance Venice.