Materijalna kultura društvenih elita mletačke Istre: kuća obitelji Negri iz Labina polovicom 16. stoljeća (La cultura materiale delle elites dell'Istria veneta: la casa Negri di Albona a metà Cinquecento)

The paper analyzes the culture of living and the interiors of social elites in 16th century Venetian Istria, based on an extremely detailed and extensive inventory of the Negri family house in Labin from 1556. It explains the social and economic context of the above mentioned document and reconstructs the interiors of a house that belonged to Agostino Negri, a wealthy banker from Labin. Furthermore, legal documents are cited (statutes, provisions against luxuries), which likewise suggest a high level of material culture of the urban nobility on the eastern border of the Venetian possessions in Istria.