The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella D'Este Tapa dura - 2006

USA: Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to. Hardcover with complete DJ. Illustrated throughout in b/w and colour. Lightly used copy. Overall clean, unmarked, and square.

Yale University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2006. Hardcover. 0300117531 . Unused book, light jacket crease top edge; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2004. Hardcover. VG/VG- (sunning to upper board edges & spine. light wear to boards. dustjacket has coffee-like staining to lower internal & external edges; edge-wear.). black boards w/ gilt spine printing. book viii, 402 pages w/ bw & color illustrations. glossy pictorial & blue dustjacket w/ white printing. Remains a nice, bright and sharp copy. "The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading and contemplation, but at the Italian courts of the fifteenth century, it had become a space of luxury, as much devoted to displaying the taste and culture of its occupant as to studious withdrawal. The most famous studiolo of all was that of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539). A chief component of its decoration was a series of seven paintings by some of the most noteworthy artists of the time, including Andrea Mantegna, Pietro Perugino, Lorenzo Costa, and Correggio. These paintings encapsulated the principles of an… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards show slightly bumped corners. Slight wear to dust jacket. 404 pages. ""The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading and contemplation, but at the Italian courts of the fifteenth century, it had become a space of luxury, as much devoted to displaying the taste and culture of its occupant as to studious withdrawal. The most famous studiolo of all was that of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539). A chief component of its decoration was a series of seven paintings by some of the most noteworthy artists of the time, including Andrea Mantegna, Pietro Perugino, Lorenzo Costa, and Correggio. These paintings encapsulated the principles of an emerging Renaissance artistic genre� ""the mythological image. Using these paintings as an exemplary case, and drawing on other important examples made by Giorgione in Venice and by… Leer más

Yale University Press. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Yale Univ Pr, 2006. Hardcover. New. new title edition. 240 pages. 10.00x7.50x1.00 inches.

London and New Haven: 2006. 240pp with 30 colour and 100 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 25.4x19cms. ISBN: 0300117531. Re-examines the function of the mythological image, and in particular the accommodation of Eros as a central concern, within the Renaissance culture of readers and collectors, as exemplified by the seven paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella d' Este (1474-1539) in Mantua, which contained masterpieces by Correggio, Mantegna and Perugino amongst others. Text in English.