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The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
by Campbell, Stephen J
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0300117531
- ISBN 13
- 9780300117530
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards show slightly bumped corners. Slight wear to dust jacket. 404 pages. ""The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading and contemplation, but at the Italian courts of the fifteenth century, it had become a space of luxury, as much devoted to displaying the taste and culture of its occupant as to studious withdrawal. The most famous studiolo of all was that of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539). A chief component of its decoration was a series of seven paintings by some of the most noteworthy artists of the time, including Andrea Mantegna, Pietro Perugino, Lorenzo Costa, and Correggio. These paintings encapsulated the principles of an emerging Renaissance artistic genre ""the mythological image. Using these paintings as an exemplary case, and drawing on other important examples made by Giorgione in Venice and by Titian and Michelangelo for the Duke of Ferrara, Stephen Campbell explores the function of the mythological image within a Renaissance culture of readers and collectors."" [blurb]
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- Title
- The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este
- Author
- Campbell, Stephen J
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0300117531
- ISBN 13
- 9780300117530
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Renaissance Studiolo, private reading, Contemplation, Italian Courts, Fifteenth Century, Luxury, marchioness of Mantua, antiquities, Natural curiousities, Works of Art, Andrea Mantegna, Pietro Perugino, Lorenzo Costa, Correggio, Mythological image, fables
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