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Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing
Carole Collier Frick
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Paperback. Dressing Renaissance Florence enables us to better understand the social and cultural milieu of Renaissance Italy. Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Num Pages: 368 pages, 33, 33 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; 3JB; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, ... Read more
As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Series
Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801882647
SKU
V9780801882647
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About Carole Collier Frick
Carole Collier Frick is an associate professor of history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
Reviews for Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing
A useful and timely undertaking.
Elizabeth Currie Textile History A pioneering book on the sartorial extravagance and fashions in Florence.
L. R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance A wonderful book, after reading which we will not be able to visualise Renaissance Florence in the same way again.
Catherine Kovesi Killerby Reviews in History This lively book ... Read more
Elizabeth Currie Textile History A pioneering book on the sartorial extravagance and fashions in Florence.
L. R. N. Ashley Bibliotheque d'Humanisme et Renaissance A wonderful book, after reading which we will not be able to visualise Renaissance Florence in the same way again.
Catherine Kovesi Killerby Reviews in History This lively book ... Read more