Description
Book SynopsisMaterial 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.
Trade Review“All in all, this is a useful, at times thought-provoking, and never less than informative collection of essays.” (
Sixteenth Century Journal, Winter 2008)
Table of ContentsNote 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.
