Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence : Courtauld Gallery, London : 12 February - 17 May, 2009. Accompanying an exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue explores one of the most important and historically neglected art forms of Renaissance Florence: cassoni - pairs of chests that were lavishly decorated with precious metals and elaborate paintings and were often the most expensive of a whole suite of decorative objects commissioned to celebrate marriage alliances between powerful families. Bibliography. Soft pictorial covers. Corners bumped. No inscriptions. Illustrated in colour ; frontispiece. Tight spine