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Peter Thornton, The Italian Renaissance Interior 1400–1600. (New York: Abrams) 1991 "Cassone - Italian Renaissance Marriage Chest" in Eclectique, 23 September 2009. Helen Webberley, "Marriage, fertility and courtly love in Renaissance Italy: cassone" in Art and Architecture, mainly, 1 February 2011
A depiction of two lovers at a wedding. From the Aldobrandini Wedding fresco. The precise customs and traditions of weddings in ancient Rome likely varied heavily across geography, social strata, and time period; Christian authors writing in late antiquity report different customs from earlier authors writing during the Classical period, with some authors condemning practices described by ...
Italy was the main centre of artistic developments throughout the Renaissance (1300–1600), beginning with the Proto-Renaissance of Giotto and reaching a particular peak in the High Renaissance of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael, whose works inspired the later phase of the Renaissance, known as Mannerism. Italy retained its ...
Boulting, William. Woman in Italy: From the Introduction of the Chivalrous Service of Love to the Appearance of the Professional Actress. 2018; Brown, Judith. Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Women And Men In History) Budin, Stephanie Lynn. Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution. Routledge, 2021; Hare ...
The Wedding at Cana is a popular theme painted by many artists. Italian Renaissance painter Paolo Veronese who was based in Venice painted his version of The Wedding at Cana. The theme is traditionally considered the first miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John. Jesus Christ, his mother, and his disciples were invited to a wedding.
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The Departure of Bucentaur for the Lido on Ascension Day by Francesco Guardi. The rites of propitiation linked to the sea dates back to antiquity.In his short memoir, the French archaeologist and religious historian Salomon Reinach recalls famous episodes, in particular the throwing by Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, of a precious ring into the sea to appease the gods. [1]
The first intermedii were not in Florence but in Ferrara at the end of the 15th century between the five acts of plays by the classical authors Plautus and Terence.Writing of the "intermezzi" at the wedding of Lucrezia Borgia in 1502, Isabella d'Este said that they were more interesting than the boring commedia, "a remark destined to be often repeated". [2]