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DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual book launch for Chriscinda Henry’s Playfu
 l Pictures: Art\, Leisure\, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance 
 Home. The launch will open with a brief introduction by Chriscinda\, a dis
 cussion with art historian Tracy Cooper\, and conclude with an open Q&A pe
 riod. The event will take place on Zoom.\n\nRegistration: https://www.even
 tbrite.ca/e/315401904587\n\n“In Playful Pictures\, Chriscinda Henry explor
 es the rise of private art col­lection in Renaissance Venice as a diporto\
 , or pastime\, practiced within a kaleidoscopic matrix of domestic leisure
  that encompassed the recitation of poetry and tales\, games\, music makin
 g\, amateur theatrical activity\, and the conversational arts.” – Penn Sta
 te University Press\n\nLearn more about Playful Pictures at the Penn State
  University Press website. Use code NR22 to save 30%.\n\nChriscinda Henry’
 s research focuses on the multisensory relationship between art\, music\, 
 recreation\, and festivity in the Renaissance. Her book Playful Pictures: 
 Painting\, Leisure\, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home (P
 enn State University Press\, 2022)\, explores the origins of private art c
 ollecting in Venice through the intersections between visual art\, literat
 ure\, music\, and theater in different key spaces of the domestic sphere. 
 Together with musicologist Tim Shephard\, Henry also recently completed ed
 iting the interdisciplinary volume Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance
  Italy\, forthcoming from Routledge in 2022.\n\nTracy E. Cooper specialize
 s in Venetian and early modern cultural history and theory\, with particul
 ar interests in architecture and urbanism\, space and circulation\, and pa
 tronage and collecting studies. As a member of the board of directors for 
 Save Venice\, Inc. she is actively involved in conservation efforts and di
 rector of the research track for a new program\, Women Artists of Venice. 
 She is best known for her award-winning book\, Palladio’s Venice: Architec
 ture and Society in a Renaissance Republic [Yale University Press]\, which
  has had major interdisciplinary impact and been widely reviewed since pub
 lishing.\n
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SUMMARY:Virtual Book Launch for Chriscinda Henry's Playful Pictures: Art\, 
 Leisure\, and Entertainment in the Venetian Renaissance Home
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