Display of Art in Roman Palace, 1550-1750

Author:   Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher:   Getty Trust Publications
ISBN:  

9781606062982


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 August 2014
Format:   Hardback
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This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the parts function to convey multiple artistic, social, and political messages, all within a splendid environment that provided a model for aristocratic residences throughout Europe. Many of the objects exhibited in museums today once graced the interior of a Roman Baroque palazzo or a setting inspired by one. In fact, the very convention of a paintings gallery- the mainstay of museums-traces its ancestry to prototypes in the palaces of Rome. Inside Roman palaces, the display of art was calibrated to an increasingly accentuated dynamism of social and official life, activated by the moving bodies and the attention of residents and visitors. Display unfolded in space in a purposeful narrative that reflected rank, honor, privilege, and intimacy. With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the influential emerging concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history-even the emergence of the modern category of fine art-was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.

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Author:   Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher:   Getty Trust Publications
Imprint:   Getty Publications
Dimensions:   Width: 22.70cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 27.80cm
Weight:   1.716kg
ISBN:  

9781606062982


ISBN 10:   1606062980
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   07 August 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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[Display of Art in the Roman Palace] gets to the root of many topics, tapping on the already well-proven scholarship of many of its contributors. Times Literary Supplement


This book, the result of an international collaborative research project run by the Getty Research Institute over five years, presents a wealth of new research into the concept and practice of display in the Early Modern Roman palace. . . . This is an enjoyable and beautiful book, and is a feat of clear organisation. Burlington Magazine


This masterful study . . . offers a fascinating account of the display of art-a category taken broadly to include any visual element found within a palace interior in the 16th-century residences of Rome's elite. . . . Highly recommended. Choice Luxuriously produced . . . the contributors show how palace interiors expressed identity and status in the capital of display Art Newspaper This book, the result of an international collaborative research project run by the Getty Research Institute over five years, presents a wealth of new research into the concept and practice of display in the Early Modern Roman palace. . . . This is an enjoyable and beautiful book, and is a feat of clear organisation. Burlington Magazine [Display of Art in the Roman Palace] gets to the root of many topics, tapping on the already well-proven scholarship of many of its contributors. --Times Literary Supplement This book, the result of an international collaborative research project run by the Getty Research Institute over five years, presents a wealth of new research into the concept and practice of display in the Early Modern Roman palace. . . . This is an enjoyable and beautiful book, and is a feat of clear organisation. --Burlington Magazine Luxuriously produced . . . the contributors show how palace interiors expressed identity and status in the capital of display --Art Newspaper This masterful study . . . offers a fascinating account of the display of art-a category taken broadly to include any visual element found within a palace interior in the 16th-century residences of Rome's elite. . . . Highly recommended. --Choice [Display of Art in the Roman Palace] gets to the root of many topics, tapping on the already well-proven scholarship of many of its contributors. Times Literary Supplement


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Gail Feigenbaum is a former associate director of the Getty Research Institute.

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