Re-thinking Renaissance objects: design, function and meaning

Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and often challenges some of the key issues and current debates relating to Renaissance art and culture INDICE: Note on contributors. Introduction (Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley). 1. Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy (Michelle O'Malley). 2. Set in stone: monumental altar frames in RenaissanceFlorence (Meghan Callahan and Donal Cooper). 3. Veit Stoss and the origins ofcollecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500 (Norbert Jopek). 4. New lighton a Venetian lantern at the V&A (Nick Humphrey and Martino Ferrari Bravo). 5. Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement (Elizabeth Miller and Alun Graves). 6. Dancing, love and the 'beautiful game': a new interpretation of a group of fifteenth-century 'gaming' boxes (Paula Nuttall). 7. Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Kirstin Kennedy). 8. Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining (Flora Dennis). Bibliography.

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-3775-4
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 03/12/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés