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Treasured possessions : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Title: Treasured possessions : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / edited by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu, Mary Laven.
Publication: London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015.

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Description

xi, 290 pages : color illustrations; 29 cm

Summary

"This book is all about possession. It explores the significance of beautiful and engaging objects -- chosen, acquired, personalised and treasured -- to the people who once owned them. With over 300 works discussed, the book takes us on a dazzling visual adventure through the decorative arts, from Renaissance luxuries wrought in glass, bronze and maiolica to the elaborate table wares 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 exotic, as witnessed in the lust for objects imported from the East, 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 on wards transformed the attitude of Europeans to their personal possessions."--Book jacket

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Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index.

Contents

A new world of goods -- Desiring and acquiring things -- The irrestible -- The fashionable body -- At home and on display.

Call Number

JQF 15-756

ISBN

9781781300336
178130033X
9781781300374
1781300372

OCLC

906242989

Title

Treasured possessions : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / edited by Victoria Avery, Melissa Calaresu, Mary Laven.

Publisher

London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-284) and index.

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Added Author

Avery, Victoria, editor.

Calaresu, Melissa, editor.

Laven, Mary, 1969- editor.

Fitzwilliam Museum.

Research Call Number

JQF 15-756

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