The triumph of marriage : painted cassoni of the Renaissance
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The triumph of marriage : painted cassoni of the Renaissance
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, c2008
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Exhibition catalogue
"Published for the exhibition, The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 16 October 2008 to 18 January 2009, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 14 February 2009 to 17 May 2009"--T.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 159-176
Includes index
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Description
Cassoni is the Italian word for the chests, painted with scenes from myth and literature, central to upper-class weddings of the 15th century. Little known today, cassoni deserve recognition as masterworks of the Renaissance. Botticelli, Pesellino and other superlative artists painted them, and they are precious early examples of the mythopoetic subjects that would form the core of European art until the 20th century. The essays in this book shed new light on the meaning of cassoni through informative discussions of Renaissance wedding rituals, male-female relations and daily domestic life. A catalogue section on cassoni in the exhibition that this book accompanies provides a unique guide to the stories of love, marriage and politics depicted on these sumptuous objects.
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