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1 online resource (188 pages) |
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Visual Culture in Early Modernity |
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Visual culture in early modernity.
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Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Private Parties and Public Life; Chapter Outline; Notes; 1 Opulent Precedents: Jerome de Busleyden's Humanist Banquets; Busleyden's Guests; The Stoove; ""conviva convivio nostro""48; Business Elsewhere; Notes; 2 Wine, Beer, and Butter: Jan Noirot's Dining Room and Social Life at the Antwerp Mint; The Mint at Mid-Century; Mint Men; The Mint Master's House; Hester van Eeckeren and Household Maintenance; Notes; 3 The Dinner Party as Performance; Theories of Performance and the Table-Play |
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Bruegel's Peasants as PerformersNotes; 4 Sea Gods Battle and Peasants Dance: The Material Culture of the Antwerp Dinner Party; Table; Kruiken (Stoneware Jugs); Tafelbellen (Table Bells); Salt Cellars (Soutvaten); Knives and Spoons; Fopglazen (Play Glasses) and Early Modern Drinking Games; Hearth; Blaesbalcken (Bellows); Kacheltegels (Hearth Tiles); Notes; 5 Antwerp and Beyond: Envisioning the Early Modern Dining Room; Dining Rooms in Antwerp; The Country (or Suburban) Dining Room; Palace Dining Rooms; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
"Mining a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources, including stoneware jugs, personal correspondence, paintings, inventories, and literature written for the dining room, this study offers a critical and entirely original examination of the function of early modern images for the people who owned and viewed them. The study explores the emergence, functions and material culture of the Antwerp dinner party during the heady days of the mid-sixteenth century, when Antwerp?s art market was thriving and a new wealthy, non-noble class dominated the city. The author recontextualizes some of Bruegel?s work within the cultural nexus of the dining room, where material culture and theatrical performance met humanist wit and the desire for professional advancement. The narrative also touches on the reception of Northern art in Lombardy, on intersections among painting, material culture, and theater, and on intellectual history."--Provided by publisher |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 -- Themes, motives
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SUBJECT |
Bruegel, Pieter, approximately 1525-1569 fast |
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Art and society -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century
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Dinners and dining -- Belgium -- Antwerp -- History -- 16th century
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Art and society
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Civilization
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Dinners and dining
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Themes, motives
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Antwerp (Belgium) -- Civilization -- 16th century
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Belgium -- Antwerp
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Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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Author |
Levy, Dr. Allison
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ISBN |
9781351554053 |
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1351554050 |
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