Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture / edited by Lauren Jacobi and Daniel M. Zolli.

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TextSeries: Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 27.Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), mapsContent type:

text
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computer

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online resource

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9789048541003
904854100X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture.DDC classification:

709.4 23

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N6754 .C66 2021

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Introduction / Lauren Jacobi and Daniel M. Zolli -- 1. Generation and ruination in the display of Michelangelo's Non-Finito / Carolina Mangone -- 2. The sacrilege of soot : liturgical decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto / Grace Harpster -- 3. Sedimentary aesthetics / Christopher Nygren -- 4. 'Adding to the good silver with other trickery' : purity and contamination in Clement VII's emergency currency / Allison Stielau -- 5. Tapestry as tainted medium : Charles V's Conquest of Tunis / Sylvia Houghteling -- 6. Bruegel's dirty little atoms / Amy Knight Powell -- 7. Leakage, contagion, and containment in early modern Venice / Lisa Pon -- 8. Contamination, purification, determinism : the Italian Pontine Marshes / Lauren Jacobi -- 9. Colonial consecrations, violent reclamations, and contested spaces in the Spanish Americas / Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn -- 10. Contamination : Purification / Caroline A. Jones and Joseph Leo Koerner.

Summary: "The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history."--Publisher's description

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history."--Publisher's description

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