Разное / Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Название: Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Автор: Marina Belozerskaya
Издательство: J. Paul Getty Museum
Год: 2005
Страниц: 292
Язык: English
Формат: True PDF
Размер: 47 MB

This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.