The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Edited by: Roberta J.M. Olson (The New-York Historical Society and
Wheaton College, Massachusetts), Patricia L. Reilly (Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania) and Rupert Shepherd (Ashmolean Museum)
Series: Renaissance Studies Special Issues
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.
- Demonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths
of their creators and patrons.
- Contains a series of original contributions by young scholars,
representing a broad range of approaches.
US / Canada $34.95
Europe / Rest of World £19.99
Australia / New Zealand A$65.95
ISBN: 1405139552
Blackwell Publishing
Publication Dates
USA: May 2006
Rest of World: Apr 2006
Australia: Jun 2006
Format 229 x 152 mm , 6 x 9 in
Details 156 pages
Available from the Blackwell website at
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Table of Contents
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 in Early-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.
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