Daily life in art / Béatrice Fontanel ; translated from the French by Liz Nash.
Alternate Title(s):
Vie quotidienne en peinture. English
Published / Created:
New York : H.N. Abrams, 2006.
Physical Description:
199 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Related Content:
Table of contents
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0519/2005027503.html
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 198)
Contents:
Middle ages -- In the ladies chamber -- Renaissance -- Drama of the fireplace -- Seventeenth century -- Holland invents the well-ordered household -- Age of enlightenment -- Servant enters the scene -- Nineteenth century -- Triumph of the bourgeois apartment -- Twentieth century -- Decline of the linen closet and the birth of comfort.
Subject Terms:
Genre painting. | Manners and customs in art. | Interior decoration in art.