Approaching the Italian Renaissance Interior

Marta Ajmar-Wollheim is Renaissance Course Tutor on the joint MA programme in History of Design at the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art. Flora Dennis is Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior (Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Royal Holloway). Together they are co-curators of the museum’s major exhibition At Home in Renaissance Italy (V&A, 2006) and editors of the accompanying publication. Ann Matchette, also based at the V&A, is a Renaissance Course Tutor on the joint MA in History of Design with the RCA.

• Editorial: John E. Law. 1. Approaching The Italian Renaissance Interior: Sources, Methodologies, Debates: Marta Ajmar-Wollheim, Flora Dennis and Ann Matchette.2. 'Contrary To The Truth And Also To The Semblance Of Reality'? Entering A Venetian 'Lying-In' Chamber (1605): Patricia Allerston.3. Sacred To Secular, East To West: The Renaissance Study And Strategies Of Display: Maria Ruvoldt.4. Domestic Sacral Space In The Florentine Renaissance Palace: Philip Mattox.5. Bathing All'antica: Bathrooms In Genoese Villas And Palaces In The Sixteenth Century: Stephanie Hanke.6. To Have And Have Not: The Disposal Of Household Furnishings In Florence: Ann Matchette.7. Creating Sacred Space: The Religious Visual Culture of the Renaissance Venetian Casa: Margaret A. Morse.Index

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