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Elizabeth Currie.
Inside the Renaissance House.
Published London: V&A Publications, 2006.
ISBN 1851774904;
ISBN-13: 9781851774906.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in Hong Kong.
Size 194×214×14mm.
Page count 96pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused but was supplied without shrink-wrap, so shows some evidence of long-term storage; the dustjacket is a bit scuffed and scratched, and has some residue from a small sticker on its front panel.

This item £6.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price £14.99]
Weight without packaging: 479g.

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The Renaissance home was an outward symbol of a family’s status, wealth and erudition, and much care went into its arrangement and furnishing, and the art of household management. Inside the Renaissance House vividly conveys through contemporary illustrations and lively writing the realities of living in Florence and Venice during this innovative era and takes the reader on a room-by-room tour. From the sala, devoted to games, music and entertaining in style, to the bedchamber, which was far from the private space it is today, to the study, full of rare and precious objects, Elizabeth Currie evokes the life that went on in each room.

Contents: A view into the Renaissance house; Reception room & kitchen — social life of the family; The bedroom — marriages, births & everyday life; The study — business & pleasure.

Illustrations: throughout, mostly in colour
Floorplans: 1

Notes: no
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 1 page
Index: yes

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