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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing

Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing

Frick, Carole Collier

Paperback

Series: Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political, Book 120

BeautyMedieval & Renaissance HistoryItalian History

ISBN10: 0801882648
ISBN13: 9780801882647
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Nov 1 2005
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

As portraits, private diaries, and estate inventories make clear, elite families of the Italian Renaissance were obsessed with fashion, investing as much as forty percent of their fortunes on clothing. In fact, the most elaborate outfits of the period could cost more than a good-sized farm out in the Mugello. Yet despite its prominence in both daily life and the economy, clothing has been largely overlooked in the rich historiography of Renaissance Italy. In Dressing Renaissance Florence, however, Carole Collier Frick provides the first in-depth study of the Renaissance fashion industry, focusing on Florence, a city founded on cloth, a city of wool manufacturers, finishers, and merchants, of silk dyers, brocade weavers, pearl dealers, and goldsmiths. From the artisans who designed and assembled the outfits to the families who amassed fabulous wardrobes, Frick's wide-ranging and innovative interdisciplinary history explores the social and political implications of clothing in Renaissance Italy's most style-conscious city.

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