Renaissance Italy’s art, literature, and culture continue to fascinate. The domestic life has been examined more in recent years, and this book reveals the preparation, eating, and the sociability of
The foods people catch, cook, and eat often tell us a great deal about a society during a given time period. By examining both the tools and methods of the kitchen as well as the menus and mores of th
Expanding interdisciplinary investigations into gender and material culture, Katherine A. McIver here adds a new dimension to Renaissance patronage studies by considering domestic art - the decoration
Ten contributions from art historians deal with the interesting subject of how women who were marginalized or made invisible because of the cultural and economic milieu, or who chose to be invisible f
McIver (art history, U. of Alabama) takes a new path in this interdisciplinary approach to material culture by exploring the decoration of the domestic interior. She investigates the household records
Fifteen art historians from the U.S., Europe and Canada contribute 18 essays illustrating the variety of methodologies available to the art historian, historian, musicologist, and scholar in general,
Twenty-five contributions review the scholarship that has transformed understanding of the lives of women--and also of men--in early modern Europe, 1400 through 1800, during the past three decades. Th
Taking as axiomatic the concept that artistic output does not simply reflect culture but also shapes it, the essays in this interdisciplinary collection take a holistic approach to the cultural fashio
