Re-thinking Renaissance objects

"Re-thinking Renaissance objects considers key issues at the heart of current scholarly debate on Renaissance art and culture. Inspired by research that has developed from the redisplay of the outstanding Medieval and Renaissance collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the authors use th...

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Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Motture, Peta, O'Malley, Michelle
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, Mass. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Renaissance studies special issues ; 5.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley
  • Finding fame : painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy / Michelle O'Malley
  • Set in stone : monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence / Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper
  • Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 / Norbert Jopek
  • New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A / Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo
  • Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement / Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves
  • Dancing, love, and the 'beautiful game' : a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes / Paula Nuttall
  • Sharing and status : the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum / Kirstin Kennedy
  • Scattered knives and dismembered song : cutlery, music and the rituals of dining / Flora Dennis.