Prayer nuts, private devotion, and early modern art collecting / edited by Evelin Wetter and Frits Scholten ; with contributions by Lisa Ellis [and eight others].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Wetter, Evelin, 1969- editor.

Scholten, Frits, editor.

Ellis, Lisa, contributor.

Abegg-Stiftung, issuing body.

Conference Name:

Prayer nuts, private devotion, and early modern art collecting (Colloquium) (2012: Abegg-Stiftung), author.

Series:

Riggisberger Berichte ; 22.

Riggisberger Berichte ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Devotional objects--Catholic Church--Congresses.

Devotional objects--Europe--Congresses.

Beads--Religious aspects--Congresses.

Wood-carving--Congresses.

Devotional objects--Collectors and collecting--Congresses.

Devotional objects--Collectors and collecting.

Devotional objects.

Wood-carving.

Beads--Religious aspects.

Devotional objects--Catholic Church.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

233 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

Riggisberg : Abegg-Stiftung, 2017.

Summary:

"The authors present prayer-nuts and small-scale boxwood carvings of different collections and highlight their function as private devotional objects and collector's items. They discuss prints used as models for Late Gothic and Early Renaissance miniature carvings and sculptures and present new material about the historical perception of such objects. This book contains the papers of a colloquium organised by the Abegg-Stiftung in 2012, with contributions by R. Falkenburg, E.M. Kavaler, J.C. Smith, I. Veldman et al'-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / Evelin Wetter

Prayer nuts: feasting the 'eyes of the heart' / Reindert Falkenburg

Small-scale boxwood carvings as instruments of devotional practice and collectors' item: pictorial sources, material findings, and archival evidence / Evelin Wetter

Joost van Cranevelt's description of the Riggisberg Magdalen prayer nut (1633) / Frits Scholten

Plates

English translation of a manuscript in the Library of the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap (Royal Antiquarian Society) in Amsterdam (inv. no. KOG Hs 55), dated 1633 / Beschrijvonge Van Een Constigen Appel [...]

"The worldly life of Mary Magdalen," Lucas van Leyden's print, the Riggisberg prayer nut and their pictorial tradition / Ilja M. Veldman

The early collecting of Dü rer's prints / Jeffrey Chipps Smith

The donors of the Louvre Boxwood Miniature Altar identified / Ingmar Reesing

Prayer nuts and early modern sculpture in the Netherlands / Ethan Matt Kavaler

Sixteenth-Century micro-carving and exceptions to the norm: three case studies / Alexandra Suda

The virtual deconstruction of a prayer bead in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario with Micro-CT scanning and advanced 3D Analysis software / Lisa Ellis et. al.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231).

ISBN:

9783905014648

3905014645

OCLC:

988251740

Publisher Number:

9783905014648