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The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
"A lot is packed into this slim volume; big claims are made for small objects, which can only be a good thing, and with any luck it will generate further debate about the methods by which we analyse ‘pre-modern’ things."
–Catherine Richardson, University of Birmingham
Roberta J. M. Olson (Edited by), Patricia L. Reilly (Edited by), Rupert Shepherd (Edited by)
9781405139557, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 19 April 2006
156 pages
23 x 15.5 x 0.9 cm, 0.254 kg
“All in all, this is a useful, at times thought-provoking, and never less than informative collection of essays.” (Sixteenth Century Journal, Winter 2008)
Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the ‘social lives’ of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes’ jewellery, to miraculous painted images.
Note from the Series Editor. Preface. Introduction: Toothpicks and Green Hangings: Nicholas Penny. Part I: The Creation of the Object: Patricia L. Reilly. What You See Is What You Get: Colour In Italian Renaissance Istoriato Ware: Steve Wharton. ‘Sculpsit Cellinius Neptunam’: The Biography of the Neptune Fountain in Cellini’s Vita: Victoria C. Gardner Coates. Part II: The Life of the Object: Rupert Shepherd. Banquet Plate and Renaissance Culture: A Day in the Life: Valerie Taylor. For Use and Display: Selected Furnishings and Domestic Goods in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Interiors: James R. Lindow. Fragments from the ‘Life Histories’ of Jewellery belonging to Prostitutes inEarly-Modern Rome: Tessa Storey. Part III: The After-Life of the Object: Roberta J. M. Olson. The Icon of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome: An Image and its Afterlife: Kirstin Noreen. One Pontile, Two Pontili: The Choir Screens of Modena Cathedral: Dawn Cunningham. The Afterlife of an Early Medieval Chapel: Giovanni Battista Ricci and Perceptions of the Christian Past in Post-Tridentine Rome: Ann Van Dijk. The Scrittoio Della Calliope in the Palazzo Vecchio: A Tuscan Museum: Andrea M. Gáldy. Index.
Subject Areas: Art treatments & subjects [AG]
