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The biography of the object in late medieval and Renaissance Italy / edited by Roberta J.M. Olson, Patricia L. Reilly and Rupert Shepherd.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- International Congress on Medieval Studies (37th : 2002 : Kalamazoo, Mich.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture--Social aspects--Italy--History--Congresses.
- Material culture.
- Art, Medieval--Italy--Congresses.
- Art, Medieval.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Congresses.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Art, Italian--Congresses.
- Art, Italian.
- Art and society--Italy--Congresses.
- Art and society.
- Material culture--Social aspects.
- History.
- Italy--Civilization--Congresses.
- Italy.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 147 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2006.
- Summary:
- The famous call, made nineteen years ago by Appadurai and Kopytoff, that students of material culture should study the 'social life' of things has, until now, had a limited effect upon students of the Italian Renaissance. The essays in this book - part of the recent burgeoning interest in Italian Renaissance material culture - rise to Appadurai and Kopytoff's challenge, examining the 'lives' led by objects in late medieval and Renaissance Italy: their creations, lives and subsequent after-lives.
- Contents:
- Introduction: toothpicks and green hangings / Nicholas Penny
- The creation of the object / Patricia L. Reilly
- What you see is what you get: colour in Italian Renaissance istoriato ware / Steve Warton
- 'Sculpsit Cellinius Neptunam': the biography of the Neptune fountain in Cellini's vita / Victoria C. Gardner Coates
- 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
- 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 / Andres M. Gáldy.
- Notes:
- "Most of the essays ... were originally delivered as papers ... at the 37th International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo, Michigan, in May 2002"--Pref.
- "First published as a special issue of Renaissance studies"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Henry Putney Beers Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1405139552
- 9781405139557
- OCLC:
- 73321666
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