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Money matters in European artworks and literature, c. 1400-1750 /
This is the first book to focus on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in the arts of the early modern period. The precious metals, double-sided form, and emblematic character of coins had deep resonance in European culture and cultural encounters. Coins embodied Europe's impressi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction: Embodying Value
- Power and Authority in the Mint
- 1. Weighing Things Up in Maarten de Vos's Tribunal of the Brabant Mint 1594
- Joanna Woodall
- 2. Scaling the World: Allegory of Coinage and Monetary Governance in the Dutch Republic
- Sebastian Felten and Jessica Stevenson Stewart
- Currency and the Anxieties of Global Trade
- 3. Market Stall in Batavia: Money, Value, and Uncertainty in the Age of Global Trade
- Angela Ho
- 4. Beyond the Mint: Picturing Gold on the Rijksmuseum's Box of the Dutch West India Company
- Carrie Anderson
- Coins and Persons
- 5. The Heft of Truth: Inwardness and Debased Coinage in Shakespeare's Plays
- Rana Choi
- 6. Identity, Agency, Motion: Taylor's Twelvepence and the Poetry of Commodity
- Heather G.S. Johnson
- Coins in and out of Circulation
- 7. Margarethe Butzbach and the Florin Extorted by Blows
- Coins Securing Social Bonds in Fifteenth-Century Germany*
- Allison Stielau
- 8. Centring the Coin in Jacob Backer's Woman with a Coin*
- Natasha Seaman
- Credit and Risk
- 9. Accounting Faith and Seeing 'Ghost Money' in Masaccio's Tribute Money*
- Roger J. Crum
- 10. Monetary Transactions and Pictorial Gambles in Georges de La Tour
- Dalia Judovitz
- Afterword
- The Work of Art: The Installations of Kelli Rae Adams
- Natasha Seaman
- Index
- List of Illustrations
- I Leonhard Beck, The Young Emperor Maximilian Visiting a Mint, c. 1514-1516, woodcut, dimensions unknown, for Marx Treitzsauerwein, Der Weißkunig, privately circulated, 1526. Illustration from the edition commercially published by Joseph Kurzboeck, Vienna
- II Jost Amman (designer), Hartman Schopper (author), Monetarius, 1568, woodcut and letterpress, 148 x 79 mm (print 90 x 61), from Panoplia Omnium Illiberalium Mechanicarum (The Book of Trades), Frankfurt: Sigmund Feierabend, 1568. © Lebrecht Music & Arts
- III Unknown artist, Group Portrait of Mintmaster Clemens van Eembrugge and His Companions, 1581, oil on panel, dimensions unknown. 's-Heerenberg, Netherlands, Huis Bergh Castle.
- IV Unknown Indo-Christian artist, The Virgin of Mount Potosí, c. 1740, oil on canvas, dimensions unknown. Potosí, Museo de la Casa Nacional de Moneda. Photo © Julie Laurent/Julyinireland (Flickr).
- V Jacob Jonghelinck, medal of Philip II of Spain to commemorate the victory of Saint Quentin. Obverse: Philip II laureate, reverse: Saint Quentin with commemorative inscription, 1557, silver, 35 mm diameter. Location unknown. © Artokoloro/ Alamy Stock Ph
- VI Frans Francken the Younger, The Cabinet of a Collector with Paintings, Shells, Coins, Fossils and Flowers, 1619, oil on panel, 85 x 56 cm. Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten. Photo: Hugo Maertens, Collection KMSKA
- Flemish Community (CC0).