Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court
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Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court

Objects and Exchanges

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Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court

Objects and Exchanges

About this book

In this book, 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Table of contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of colour plates
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Introduction: Mobile Objects and Sociable Exchanges in the Renaissance Court
  10. One Carafa’s testa di cavallo: The Life of a Bronze Gifthorse
  11. Two Practices of Exchange: Merchant Bankers and the Circulation of Objects
  12. Three Intertextuality and Collection at the Court of Ferrara: Roberti’s Diptych
  13. Four The Order of the Ermine: Collars, Cloaks, and the Circulation of The Sign
  14. Conclusion: Towards A New Understanding of Objects at Court
  15. Appendix: Eleonora d’Aragona’s Inventories
  16. Notes
  17. Primary Archival Sources
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Plates