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Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture /
"The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, th...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ;
27. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Lauren Jacobi and Daniel M. Zolli
- 1. Generation and ruination in the display of Michelangelo's Non-Finito / Carolina Mangone
- 2. The sacrilege of soot : liturgical decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto / Grace Harpster
- 3. Sedimentary aesthetics / Christopher Nygren
- 4. 'Adding to the good silver with other trickery' : purity and contamination in Clement VII's emergency currency / Allison Stielau
- 5. Tapestry as tainted medium : Charles V's Conquest of Tunis / Sylvia Houghteling
- 6. Bruegel's dirty little atoms / Amy Knight Powell
- 7. Leakage, contagion, and containment in early modern Venice / Lisa Pon
- 8. Contamination, purification, determinism : the Italian Pontine Marshes / Lauren Jacobi
- 9. Colonial consecrations, violent reclamations, and contested spaces in the Spanish Americas / Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn
- 10. Contamination : Purification / Caroline A. Jones and Joseph Leo Koerner.