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Private Life in Renaissance Venice – Fortini Brown Patricia – Aleteia – 2026 – ISBN 978-5-00267-181-6

Private Life in Renaissance Venice
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Renowned art historian Patricia Fortini Brown, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, offers a fascinating and original look at the private lives and material culture of 16th-century Venice's aristocratic families, inviting readers into the magnificent palaces of the nobility built along the Venetian canals. She explores the role of fine and applied arts in private life, as well as the messages these impressively opulent dwellings conveyed.

This lavishly illustrated book creates a vivid picture of aristocratic lifestyle during a period when the very concept of aristocratic nobility was undergoing significant change. In the early 16th century, members of the patriciate increasingly desired to be seen as noble not only in status but also in their lifestyle. The author examines the reasons for this phenomenon and explores a wide range of topics: attitudes toward wealth and its display, the formation of family identity, the interaction between the public and private spheres, and the emergence of distinctive Venetian practices and styles in art and architecture.
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