Daily life in art
By: Béatrice Fontanel ; translated from the French by Liz Nash.
Publisher: H.N. Abrams
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Genre painting.; Manners and customs in art.; Interior decoration in art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Middle ages; title: In the ladies chamber; title: Renaissance; title: Drama of the fireplace; title: Seventeenth century; title: Holland invents the well-ordered household; title: Age of enlightenment; title: Servant enters the scene; title: Nineteenth century; title: Triumph of the bourgeois apartment; title: Twentieth century; title: Decline of the linen closet and the birth of comfort.