The Arts of Living explores the range, depth and beauty of the
V&A's European collections from 1600-1815, the period that laid
the foundations for the world we know today. At the heart of the
book is in investigation into the objects of everyday life, and the
ways that art and design both reflected and changed how people
lived. The works of art and manufactured goods with which men and
women surrounded themselves defined their identity and role in
society - from monarchs to merchants, craftsmen to housewives.
Singular masterpieces by painters and sculptors including Boucher
and Bernini, along with the work of such leading manufacturers as
the Gobelins, Boulle and Meissen, illustrate a great diversity of
subjects, from Louis XIV and Catherine the Great to male adornment
and fashionable silks, from Jewish traditions and the Dutch
interior to the East India trade and Africans in European art.
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