Collaborative project, funded through a major Getty Collaborative Research Grant and an AHRC grant which supported the activities of the Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior. 

This collaborative research project for the major exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum was the result of four years of research by an international and interdisciplinary team of scholars working within art, decorative arts and architectural history, archaeology, social history, Islamic studies, music history, the history of science, food history and conservation. Exploring the domestic interior in Italy between 1400 and 1600 in all its visual and material complexity, with objects ranging from prestigious old master paintings and sculpture to pins and pastry cutters, the exhibition brought together for the first time the world of Renaissance ‘high’ art and that of domestic material culture.