Buy this book on-line Campbell, Stephen J : The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'EsteYale University Press, New Haven, 2006 ISBN 0300117531
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 genreā "the mythological image. Using these paintings as an exemplary case, and drawing on other important examples made by Giorgione in Venice and by Titian and Michelangelo for the Duke of Ferrara, Stephen Campbell explores the function of the mythological image within a Renaissance culture of readers and collectors." [blurb]. Art. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hard Cover. Jacket: Near Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Campbell, Stephen J : The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, used books, fine bindings, libri antichi and livres rares. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |