Treasured Possessions by Keeper Applied Arts Department Victoria Avery
This book 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, it 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.Victoria Avery is the Keeper of Applied Arts at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. She was previously Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Warwick, where she taught courses focusing on Italian Renaissance art and architecture. Since completing her British Academy
funded PhD on the work of the Venetian Renaissance sculptor, Alessandro Vittoria (Cambridge 1996), Dr Avery has spent a great deal of time conducting research in the archives in Venice on aspects of Venetian Renaissance sculpture, which has resulted in numerous publications on the subject.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781300374 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781300372 |
| Title | Treasured Possessions |
| Author | Keeper Applied Arts Department Victoria Avery |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Philip Wilson Publishers |
| Year published | 2015-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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