{"product_id":"playful-pictures-art-leisure-and-entertainment-in-the-venetian-renaissance-home-hardcover","title":"Playful Pictures: Art, Leisure, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChriscinda Henry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePlayful Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e, Chriscinda Henry explores the rise of private art collection in Renaissance Venice as a \u003ci\u003ediporto\u003c\/i\u003e, or pastime, practiced within a kaleidoscopic matrix of domestic leisure that encompassed the recitation of poetry and tales, games, music making, amateur theatrical activity, and the conversational arts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween around 1490 and 1550, a new class of pictures emerged in Venice. These images--primarily paintings but also drawings, prints, book illustrations, and historiated architectural elements--feature quotidian, festive, allusive, and performative subjects that catered to the cultural and intellectual interests of \u003ci\u003eavant-garde \u003c\/i\u003epatrons and collectors. Several generations of Venetian artists, including Vittore Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo, Giovanni Cariani, Bernardino Licinio, and Paris Bordon, rose to meet the demand of modern collectors seeking entertaining artworks that could speak to their personal values and taste. \u003ci\u003ePlayful Pictures\u003c\/i\u003e connects painting and the graphic arts with other art forms engaged in the home: vernacular literature and the \u003ci\u003enovella \u003c\/i\u003etradition; pastoral music, verse, and theater; urban dialect comedies; and carnival and ludic culture. Taking an interdisciplinary approach that treats these pursuits as linked forms of creative practice, Henry argues that they served as dynamic forms of personal and collective expression for patrons, collectors, artists, and other virtuosi seeking to express a new set of secular values and a contingent notion of selfhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncorporating fresh evidence from archival sources, this book expands the discourse on Renaissance art by situating it within the growing, and increasingly nuanced, scholarly understanding of Renaissance leisure and entertainment culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eChriscinda Henry\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Art History at McGill University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 10.08 x 8.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463663993010,"sku":"9780271089119","price":75.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/93a2074148a2ae353558e1bd263fe312.webp?v=1778991268","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/playful-pictures-art-leisure-and-entertainment-in-the-venetian-renaissance-home-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}