Venetian Interiors

A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces – motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavement taking place, and an appetit...

This is the last volume in a seven-volume collection - published in nine parts between 1864 and 1890 - comprising Venetian and other northern Italian state papers relating to Engla...

This two-volume work contains documents from the Venetian state archives from the period 1300–1454. They refer to Venice's dealings with her own empire across the eastern Mediterra...

Foundations of Interior Design, 4th Edition, introduces the fascinating world of interior design practice. The authors provide an overview of the interior design profession, introd...

This volume offers the first annotated English translation of the first two books of On Celibacy (1473) by the eminent Venetian humanist Ermolao Barbaro (1454–93); Books 3 and 4 of...

Abstract This book opens a door long closed on an important era in the history of Venice. It presents, for the first time, an introductory, contextual study of three...

Abstract This book, which is the first comprehensive study of its subject, shows how one traditionally esteemed author, the Roman poet Virgil, played an unexpecte...

From cinema’s silent beginnings, fashion and interior design have been vital to character development and narrative structure. Despite spectacular technological advancements on scr...