A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome
by
Renata Ago
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
We live in a material world—our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a time of expanding consumption, when objects began...