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Life, Love & Marriage Chests in Renaissance Italy - Frist Art Museum
In Renaissance Italy, <strong>arranged marriages were the norm</strong>. They were regarded as an alliance between two families who were usually of similar economic, social, and political standing.
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fristartmuseum.org
Fristartmuseum
In Renaissance Italy, <strong>arranged marriages were the norm</strong>. Tey were regarded as an alliance between · two families who were usually of similar economic, social, and political standing. Wives were often · younger than their husbands by a decade or more. Once a couple got engaged, the bride’s ...
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seniorwomen.com
Life, Love & Marriage Chests in Renaissance Italy at the Frist* Museum
In Renaissance Italy, arranged marriages were the norm. Wives were often younger than their husbands by a decade or more. Commissioning a pair of marriage chests to to hold the bride’s possessions was also done by <strong>either her father or the groom</strong>.
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metmuseum.org
Art and Love in the Italian Renaissance - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Love can bring pleasure or pain; beauty can inspire lascivious thoughts or bring us closer to the divine; marriage makes it impossible to live a spiritual life or provides us with an ideal companion who brings us harmony. Is the woman a courtesan or a wife? Was the work painted to commemorate a marriage or as an erotic pinup? One example illustrates the problems of interpretation we face. Late in his career, Titian painted five related works showing Venus reclining in bed accompanied by a male musician—sometimes an organist and sometimes a lute player—who gazes at her intently.
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chazen.wisc.edu
Life, Love & Marriage in Renaissance Italy - Chazen Museum of ArtChazen Museum of Art
Cassoni were often conspicuously paraded through the streets from the bride’s family home to her husband’s home as a clear statement of a new economic and political alliance between elite families. The stories and imagery selected to decorate the chests tell us much about Renaissance life and society. This exhibition was organized by Museo Stibbert and Contemporanea Progetti, and is supported by the Mildred L.
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philamuseum.org
To Love, Honor, and Obey? Stories of Italian Renaissance ...
The display considers the contexts for which marriage chests were made and used, techniques employed by craftsmen in producing them, and the sources and meanings of the decoration. Usually representing moral exemplars intended for the education of the married couple—particularly the wife—the tales and images that decorate cassoni provide insight into Renaissance Italian art, life, and society.
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