Objects of Virtue: Art in Renaissance Italy

by Luke Syson and Dora Thornton

Book Overview

You are what you own. So believed many of the elite men and women of Renaissance Italy. The notion that a person's belongings transmit something about their personal history, status, and "character" was renewed in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Objects of Virtue explores the multiple meanings and values of the objects with which families like the Medici, Este, and Gonzaga surrounded themselves. This lavishly illustrated volume examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892366575
• ISBN13: 9780892366576
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.0" x 11.2"