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Re-thinking Renaissance objects : design, function and meaning
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Motture, Peta.
- Series:
- Renaissance studies special issues Re-thinking Renaissance objects
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and society--Europe--History.
- Art objects, European--History.
- Art objects, Italian--History.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Material culture--Europe--History.
- Material culture--Italy--History.
- Renaissance.
- Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Renaissance--History--Italy.
- Art, Renaissance--History--Europe.
- Art, Renaissance--History--Italy.
- Art objects, European--History--Europe.
- Art objects, European.
- Art objects, Italian.
- Material culture.
- Art and society.
- Europe--Civilization.
- Europe.
- Local Subjects:
- Art and society--Europe--History.
- Art objects, European--History.
- Art objects, Italian--History.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Material culture--Europe--History.
- Material culture--Italy--History.
- Renaissance.
- Victoria and Albert Museum.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Hoboken : Wiley, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture.Puts forward original research, including evidence provided by an in-depth study arising from the Medieval & Renaissance Gallery projectContributions are unusual in their combination of a variety of approaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of the objects themselvesNew theo
- Contents:
- Re-thinking Renaissance Objects; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction; 1: Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy; 2: Set in stone: monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence; 3: Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500; 4: New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A; 5: Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement; 6: Dancing, love and the 'beautiful game': a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes
- 7: Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum8: Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-25851-X
- 9786613258519
- 1-4443-9677-3
- 1-4443-9675-7
- OCLC:
- 759159234
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