Issued in connection with an exhibition held Nov. 11, 2008-Feb. 16, 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Mar. 15-June 14, 2009, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth. Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-364) and index.
Contents:
Directors' foreword -- Lenders to the Exhibition -- Contributors to the catalogue -- Introduction: art and love in Renaissance Italy / Andrea Bayer -- Marriage as a key to understanding the past / Deborah L. Krohn -- The marriage portrait in the Renaissance, or some woman named Ginevra / Everett Fahy -- Wives, lovers, and art in Italian Renaissance courts / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio -- "Rapture to the greedy eyes": profane love in the Renaissance / Linda Wolk-Simon -- CATALOGUE. Commemorating betrothal, marriage, and cihldbirth -- Rites of passage: art objects to celebrate betrothal, marriage, and the family / Deborah L. Krohn -- Maiolica of love and marriage -- Belle Donne, facing couples, and Fede -- The cruelty of love: Amor Crudel -- Marriage glassware -- Gifts and furnishings for the home -- Cassone panels and chests -- Manuscripts and books and the rituals of love and marriage -- Childbirth and family -- Profane love: the challenge of sexuality / James Grantham Turner -- Paintings -- Drawings -- Books and prints -- Maiolica -- Bronzes -- Accesories -- The paintings of love and marriage -- From Cassone to Poesia: paintings of love and marriage / Andrea Bayer -- Picturing the perfect marriage: the equilibrium of sense and sensibility in Titian's Sacred and Profane Love / Beverly Louise Brown -- Belle: picturing beautiful women / Luke Syson -- Betrothal and marriage -- Family -- Widows -- The Camera: Spalliere and other paintings -- Illustrious women -- Belle Donne -- Mythologies and allegories.
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