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For use and display: selected furnishings and domestic goods in fifteenth‐century Florentine interiors
Author(s) -
Lindow James R.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
renaissance studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 1477-4658
pISSN - 0269-1213
DOI - 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2005.00127.x
Subject(s) - fifteenth , art , visual arts , dual (grammatical number) , focus (optics) , art history , history , aesthetics , literature , classics , physics , optics
This article discusses the relationship between furnishings and domestic objects as goods that, though inherently functional, could also serve an important related purpose as display pieces. The focus is on the large chests known as cassoni and forzieri and their dual role as both storage and display pieces. Emphasis is given to the more fragile wares of maiolica and glass which, located in the same domestic spaces, were placed both within and outside these chests. The major interpretative sources for this discussion are unpublished fifteenth‐century post‐mortem inventories from the registers of the Magistrato dei Pupilli in Florence. (pp. 634–646)