The Scholar in His Study : Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy

The Scholar in His Study : Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy

Editorial Reviews
The New York Times Book Review, John Russell
This is not an "art book," though many amazing works of art can be found in it. It is about the role in the Italian Renaissance of the "studiolo".... On every page we are drawn into the society in which great art was made...

Book Description
In this engaging history, Tamara Plakins Thornton traces handwriting in America from colonial times to the present. Exploring such subjects as penmanship pedagogy, handwriting analysis, autograph collecting, handwriting experts, and calligraphy revivals, Thornton investigates the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting, showing, for example, how it came to be linked with individual identity and how in our times handwriting reflects a nostalgia for the past and a rejection of modernity.

The Scholar in His Study: Ownership and Experience in Renaissance Italy,Dora Thornton,Yale University Press,0300073895,15th century,16th century,Architecture,Art & Art Instruction,Decoration & Ornament,Europe - Italy,History,History - Renaissance,History: World,Interior Design - General,Interior decoration,Italy,Renaissance,Residential Interior Design,Studiolos,Cultural studies,European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland),History / Renaissance,Social groups & communities,Social history

Book Contents:

1. The Spirit of God: The Exegesis of 1 and 2 Corinthians in the Pneumatomachian Controversy of the Fourth Century (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)
2. The Syriac Language of Peshitta and Old Syriac Versions of Matthew: Syntactic Structure, Inner-Syriac Developments and Translation Technique (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
3. The Textual Development of the Qumran Community Rule (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)
4. The Treatises of Later Han: Their Author, Sources, Contents and Place in Chinese Historiography (Sinica Leidensia, Vol 21)
5. Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)
6. Tradition, Transmission, Transformation: Proceedings of Two Conferences on Pre-Modern Science Held at the University of Oklahoma (Collection De Travaux ... D'histiore Des Sciences, Tome 37)
7. Turkey: Political, Social and Economic Challenges in the 1990s (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia)
8. Upholsterers and Interior Furnishing in England, 1530-1840 (Bard Studies in the Decorative Arts)
9. Ysengrimus: Text With Translation, Commentary, and Introduction (Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte Bd 12)
10. Zur Semantik Anaphorischer Pronomina: Untersuchungen Scholasticher Und Moderner Theorien (Studien Und Texte Zur Geistesgeschichte Des Mittelalters)

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