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Collecting art in the Italian Renaissance court : objects and exchanges /
Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance court, exploring the circulation, exchange, collection, and display of objects. Rather than focusing on patronage strategies or the political power of individual collectors, she uses the objects themselves to elucidate the dy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; List of colour plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mobile Objects and Sociable Exchanges in the Renaissance Court; Object Knowledge, Collecting, and Court Culture in the Quattrocento; Diplomacy, Politics, and Historical Paradigms; One Carafa's testa di cavallo: The Life of a Bronze Gifthorse; Introduction; Lorenzo de' Medici and Diomede Carafa: Arbitrators between Florence and Naples; The Literary Life of a Horse's Head; Later Histories of the Horse's Head.
- The Significance of the Equine: Horseracing and GifthorsesThe Horse's Head and the Culture of Collecting; The Agency of the Thing Given: Conclusion; Two Practices of Exchange: Merchant Bankers and the Circulation of Objects; Introduction; Florentine and Neapolitan Networks: Merchants, Clients, and the Courts; Florentine Merchant Bankers in Naples; The Strozzi; The Medici and Their Associates; The Gondi; Clients and Consumers: The Neapolitan Court and Nobility; Lettucci, Gems, Jewels, and Books: The Circulation of Goods; The Florentine Lettuccio in Naples.
- Gems and Jewels: Circulation, Replication, and TransmissionThe Practices of Pawning: Objects, Contenders, and Currency; Fraught Relations: The Bejewelled Cross; Between Commodity and Sémiophore: Conclusion; Three Intertextuality and Collection at the Court of Ferrara: Roberti's Diptych; Introduction; The Painting and Scriptura Debate: Paragone, Social Positioning, and the Status of Art in Ferrara; The Studiolo and Eleonora d'Aragona's Collections; Folding Images: Engaging with the Diptych Form; Word and Flesh: Caterina Vegri and the Corpo di Christo.
- Fabula and Forms of Assembly: Paragone and the IntertextCitation, Imitation, and the Spaces of Collection; Other Forms of Citation in Eleonora d'Aragona's Collections; Collection as Assembly: Conclusion; Fast Forward 500+ Years: Landy's Saints Alive; Four The Order of the Ermine: Collars, Cloaks, and the Circulation of The Sign; Introduction; The Aragonese Orders of the Jar and the Ermine; The Statutes of the Order of the Ermine; Members and International Association; Representations of the Ermine: The Circulation of the Sign; Ceremonial: Mantles, Collars, and Bodily Inscription.
- Allegorical Representations of the Order of the Ermine: Ercole de' Roberti's Famous WomenThe Obligation of the Sign: Conclusion; Conclusion: Towards A New Understanding of Objects at Court; Appendix: Eleonora d'Aragona's Inventories; Notes; Introduction; 1 Carafa's testa di cavallo; 2 Practices of Exchange; 3 Intertextuality and Collection at the Court of Ferrara; 4 The Order of the Ermine; Conclusion; Primary Archival Sources; Archives Consulted and Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; Plates.