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Item Number: 131420
Title: Vestire i palazzi : Stoffe, tessuti e parati negli arredi e nell’arte del Barocco
Author: Rodolfo, Alessandra ; Caterina Volpi (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9788882713133
Description: Citta del Vaticano: Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 2014. 27cm., pbk., 460pp., 125 illus., many in color. Italian text, with contributions in English and French. Summary: Textile furnishing, the art of “dressing palaces”, is one of the highest expressions of Baroque art. A special collaboration between the Vatican Museums, the “Sapienza” University of Rome and the Getty Research Institute has thus given rise to complex and diversified research on the sumptuous furnishings of palaces, both Roman and otherwise, reconstructed and analysed in detail thanks to a comprehensive study of archive documents, inventories and letters. The themes explored include: the use of textiles, leatherwork and tapestries in the Floreria of the Vatican Apostolic Palaces, in France and Rome between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the role of the wardrobe; the market in textiles and clothing in Rome and Venice during the seventeenth century; the Baroque furnishings of Palazzo Madama, Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia and Palazzo Corsini; history and techniques in textile arts, with an excursus on seventeenth century female Roman fashion. Finally, there are detailed notes on some magnificent noble palaces, including Palazzo Barberini, Palazzo Spada and Palazzo Lancellotti. The volume is enhanced with exquisite photographs reproducing numerous details of the fabrics and screens, tapestries, works of art, views of rooms and antique maps. (Dentro il Palazzo, 1)
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