Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court: Objects and Exchanges

ISBN-13: 9781108427722 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 338 str.

Leah R. Clark

Opis

This book presents a new perspective on the Italian Renaissance court by examining the circulation, collection and exchange of art objects.

Recenzje

'Taking objects - as opposed to people - as her protagonists, Leah Clark proposes an innovative approach to the history of collecting art in fifteenth-century Italian courts … the scope of Clark's book reaches well beyond collecting.' Gail Feigenbaum, Renaissance Quarterly

Spis treści

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. The Order of the Ermine: collars, cloaks, and the circulation of the sign.