Treasured possessions : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
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Treasured possessions : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015
- hardback
- softcover
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"Accompanying exhibition, Treasured possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge: 24 March-6 September 2015)"--Acknowledgements
Formerly CIP Uk
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Treasured Possessions explores the significance of beautiful and engaging objects - chosen, acquired and personalised - to the people who once owned them.
With over 300 works discussed, this book takes us on a dazzling visual adventure through the decorative arts, from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronze and maiolica to the elaborate tablewares and personal adornments available to shoppers in the Age of Enlightenment.
En route, the authors consider the impact of global trade on European habits and expectations: the glamour of the Eastern exotic, the ubiquity of New World products like chocolate and sugar, and the obsession with Chinoiserie decoration. They ask what decorative objects meant to their owners before the age of industrial mass production, and explore how technological innovation and the proliferation of goods from the sixteenth century onwards transformed the attitude of Europeans to their personal possessions.
Illustrated throughout with superb colour photographs, many unfamiliar and hitherto unseen gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum's Applied Arts collection are here published for the first time.
Table of Contents
List of Lenders & Contributing Authors
Director's Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
ESSAY 1: 'The meaning of things in the early modern world'
SECTION 1: A NEW WORLD OF GOODS
ESSAY 2: 'Shopping in the Renaissance
ESSAY 3: 'Material Invention from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment'
SECTION 2: DESIRING & ACQUIRING
ESSAY 4: 'Tudor and Stuart treasures'
SECTION 3: THE IRRESISTIBLE
ESSAY 5: 'Global objects'
SECTION 4: THE FASHIONABLE BODY
ESSAY 6: 'Luxury and fashion in the eighteenth century'
SECTION 5: AT HOME & ON DISPLAY
ESSAY 7: 'The ordinary and the everyday'
ESSAY 8: 'Devotional objects'
Handlist of exhibits
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
Summary Contributor Biographies
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