Leah R. Clark

Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 859g
• ISBN-13: 9781108427722
• ISBN-10: 1108427723
• Artikelnr.: 50444002

Autorenporträt

Leah R. Clark is a Lecturer in the Department of Art History at The Open University, Milton Keynes. Her research explores the roles that the exchange, collection, and replication of objects played in the creation of social networks in the fifteenth century. She is co-editor (with Nancy Um) of a special issue of the Journal of Early Modern History, and her work has appeared in a number of publications including the Journal of the History of Collections. She has received prestigious awards and fellowships from a variety of institutions including the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the British Academy and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Inhaltsangabe

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.