Cassoni

I wanted to see what they did with marriage dowry chests, known as cassoni, and how they presented marriage gifts etc. ❋ Miglior Acque (2006)

There were, indeed, ranged along the walls about fifteen of those wooden cases painted and carved, of those 'cassoni' in which it was the fashion, in grand Italian families, to keep the trousseaux destined for the brides. ❋ Various (N/A)

Here the spirit of luxury was satisfied by beautiful designs for ornaments, dress stuffs, tapestries, vases and "cassoni," &c., which brought beauty into every life, and made each house a poem. ❋ Leader Scott (1869)

He was much esteemed as a portrait painter also in Florence, and from his love of classical subjects, and extreme finish of execution, he ranked as one of the best painters of "cassoni," or bridal-linen chests. ❋ Leader Scott (1869)

This is an area that has been the subject of much study in the last twenty or thirty years and cassoni have emerged as an extremely important aspect of domestic art in the Italian renaissance. ❋ Miglior Acque (2009)

Now showing at the Courtauld Gallery in London is an exhibition dedicated to cassoni, or painted marriage chests. ❋ Miglior Acque (2009)

These are the only cassoni to survive with their spalliere intact, so they are very important in thinking about how the cassone worked with its related items. ❋ Miglior Acque (2009)

As such it provides a good framework for exploring the subjects depicted on cassoni and spalliere panels, and decoding their meanings.' p. ❋ Miglior Acque (2009)

While they are now almost attached to the cassoni Campbell asserts, I think quite correctly, that they would have been placed much higher up on the wall and she points to their rather low view-point as evidence. ❋ Miglior Acque (2009)

The ideas of love and marital fidelity related to Susanna make her story a popular depiction on fifteenth-century cassoni and ivory caskets offered as gifts to newlywed women. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These are fascinating panels, not just for the very interesting representation of marriage, such as is discussed by Christiane Klapische-Zuber in "The Griselda Complex", but also the marriage iconography being used in such a specific nuptial context see Baskins on Italian cassoni etc. ❋ Miglior Acque (2007)

We know that the romantic vein in Giorgione was particularly strong, that he naturally delighted in producing fanciful pictures where his poetic imagination could find full play; we have seen how the classic myth and the mediaeval romance afforded opportunities for him to indulge his fancy, and we have found him adapting themes derived from these sources to the decoration of cassoni, or marriage chests. ❋ Cook, Herbert (1904)