{"product_id":"the-biography-of-the-object-in-late-medieval-and-renaissance-italy-isbn-9781405139557","title":"The Biography of the Object in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy","description":"Material culture is not static: objects are created, used and re-used, sometimes for centuries, and their lives interact with those of the people who made and used them. The essays in this book discuss the ‘social lives’ of objects in late-medieval and renaissance Italy, ranging from maiolica, through sculpture and prostitutes’ jewellery, to miraculous painted images. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eDemonstrates the continued life of these objects well past the deaths of their creators and patrons.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains a series of original contributions by young scholars, representing a broad range of approaches.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Note from the Series Editor. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Toothpicks and Green Hangings: Nicholas Penny.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: The Creation of the Object\u003c\/b\u003e: Patricia L. Reilly.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat You See Is What You Get: Colour In Italian Renaissance \u003ci\u003eIstoriato\u003c\/i\u003e Ware: Steve Wharton.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Sculpsit Cellinius Neptunam’: The Biography of the \u003ci\u003eNeptune\u003c\/i\u003e Fountain in Cellini’s \u003ci\u003eVita\u003c\/i\u003e: Victoria C. Gardner Coates.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: The Life of the Object\u003c\/b\u003e: Rupert Shepherd.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBanquet Plate and Renaissance Culture: A Day in the Life: Valerie Taylor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor Use and Display: Selected Furnishings and Domestic Goods in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Interiors: James R. Lindow.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFragments from the ‘Life Histories’ of Jewellery belonging to Prostitutes inEarly-Modern Rome: Tessa Storey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The After-Life of the Object:\u003c\/b\u003e Roberta J. M. Olson.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Icon of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome: An Image and its Afterlife: Kirstin Noreen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOne \u003ci\u003ePontile,\u003c\/i\u003e Two \u003ci\u003ePontili\u003c\/i\u003e: The Choir Screens of Modena Cathedral: Dawn Cunningham.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Afterlife of an Early Medieval Chapel: Giovanni Battista Ricci and Perceptions of the Christian Past in Post-Tridentine Rome: Ann Van Dijk.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eScrittoio Della Calliope\u003c\/i\u003e in the Palazzo Vecchio: A Tuscan Museum: Andrea M. Gáldy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e “All in all, this is a useful, at times thought-provoking, and never less than informative collection of essays.” (\u003ci\u003eSixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, Winter 2008)  \u003cb\u003eRoberta J.M. Olson\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor Emeritus of Art History at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She has worked as Curator of Drawings at the New-York Historical Society for seven years. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePatricia L. Reilly\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Art History at Swarthmore College. She is currently finishing a book on Raphael, Giorgio Vasari and the development of what she terms the ‘Florentine Visual Vernacular’.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRupert Shepherd\u003c\/b\u003e is based in the Department of Western Art at the Ashmolean Museum. His previous employment included two years as a research fellow at the University of Sussex, working on the collaborative project The Material Renaissance: Costs and Consumption in Italy c.1300-1650.\u003c\/p\u003e  The famous call, made nineteen years ago by Appadurai and Kopytoff, that students of material culture should study the ‘social life’ of things has, until now, had a limited effect upon students of the Italian Renaissance. The essays in this book – part of the recent burgeoning interest in Italian Renaissance material culture – rise to Appadurai and Kopytoff’s challenge, examining the ‘lives’ led by objects in late medieval and Renaissance Italy: their creations, lives and subsequent after-lives. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSituating objects and their biographies in their cultural, social and economic contexts, the contributors discuss the ‘social lives’ of a range of objects in late-medieval and Renaissance Italy: maiolica, sculpture, artists' autobiographies, plate for the table, \u003ci\u003ecassoni\u003c\/i\u003e, glassware, prostitutes’ jewellery, miraculous painted images, choir-screens, chapels, and antiquities. An introductory essay discusses the forms of evidence at the disposal of students of material culture and their relationship to the objects whose lives they seem to illuminate.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"A lot is packed into this slim volume; big claims are made for small objects, which can only be a good thing, and with any luck it will generate further debate about the methods by which we analyse ‘pre-modern’ things.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eCatherine Richardson\u003c\/b\u003e, University of Birmingham","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990167372005,"sku":"NP9781405139557","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405139557.jpg?v=1761786762","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-biography-of-the-object-in-late-medieval-and-renaissance-italy-isbn-9781405139557","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}