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Article: Luxury Arts of the Renaissance.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2006
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Marina Belozerskaya. Luxury Arts of the Renaissance.
Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. 280 pp. index. illus. bibl. $100. ISBN: 0-89236-785-7.
Over the last several years, a large number of publications that focus on material culture have come into print, and this sumptuously illustrated volume adds to this growing list. Today objects made of gold and precious stones, tapestries, and armor are considered minor arts, overshadowed by painting and sculpture in the art historical canon. Yet during the Renaissance throughout Europe, they were held in high esteem because of the precious and costly materials from which they were created. These ...