Research Catalog

Title

Collecting art in the Italian Renaissance court : objects and exchanges / Leah R. Clark.

Author

Clark, Leah Ruth

Publication

• Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xiii, 326 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

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 dynamic relationships formed through their exchange. Her study brings forward the mechanisms that structured relations within the court, and most importantly, also with individuals, representations, and spaces outside the court. The volume examines the courts of Italy through the wide variety of objects - statues, paintings, jewellery, furniture, and heraldry - that were valued for their subject matter, material forms, histories, and social functions. As Clark shows, the late fifteenth-century Italian court an be located not only in the body of the prince, but also in the objects that constituted symbolic practices, initiated political dialogues, caused rifts, created memories, and formed associations.--

Subjects

• Courts
• Italy
• History
• Art, Renaissance > Italy
• Courts > Italy > History
• Art objects, Renaissance > Italy
• Art, Renaissance > Collectors and collecting > Italy

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.

Contents

Introduction: Mobile objects and sociable exchanges in the Renaissance court -- 1. Carafa's Testa di cavallo: the life of a bronze gifthorse -- 2. Practices of exchange: merchant bankers and the circulation of objects -- 3. Intertextuality and collection at the court of Ferrara: Roberti's diptych -- 4. Order of the Ermine: collars, cloaks, and the circulation of the sign -- Conclusion: Towards a new understanding of objects at court.

Call Number

JQF 18-1503

ISBN

• 9781108427722
• 1108427723

OCLC

1014452824

Author

Clark, Leah Ruth, author.

Title

Collecting art in the Italian Renaissance court : objects and exchanges / Leah R. Clark.

Publisher

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1503