Download or read book Private Collectors in Mantua, 1500-1630 written by Guido Rebecchini and published by Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. This book was released on 2002 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of private art collections recorded during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Mantua. This work seeks to show how the collectors' taste changed during this period and how these changes are reflected in the collections' display, and also seeks to contribute to the understanding of the original context of works of art in sixteenth and early seventeenth century private houses in a courtly city.