Title Collecting art in the Italian Renaissance court : objects and exchanges / Leah R. Clark

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 326 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of illustrations; List of colour plates; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Mobile Objects and Sociable Exchanges in the Renaissance Court; Object Knowledge, Collecting, and Court Culture in the Quattrocento; Diplomacy, Politics, and Historical Paradigms; One Carafa's testa di cavallo: The Life of a Bronze Gifthorse; Introduction; Lorenzo de' Medici and Diomede Carafa: Arbitrators between Florence and Naples; The Literary Life of a Horse's Head; Later Histories of the Horse's Head The Significance of the Equine: Horseracing and GifthorsesThe Horse's Head and the Culture of Collecting; The Agency of the Thing Given: Conclusion; Two Practices of Exchange: Merchant Bankers and the Circulation of Objects; Introduction; Florentine and Neapolitan Networks: Merchants, Clients, and the Courts; Florentine Merchant Bankers in Naples; The Strozzi; The Medici and Their Associates; The Gondi; Clients and Consumers: The Neapolitan Court and Nobility; Lettucci, Gems, Jewels, and Books: The Circulation of Goods; The Florentine Lettuccio in Naples Gems and Jewels: Circulation, Replication, and TransmissionThe Practices of Pawning: Objects, Contenders, and Currency; Fraught Relations: The Bejewelled Cross; Between Commodity and Sémiophore: Conclusion; Three Intertextuality and Collection at the Court of Ferrara: Roberti's Diptych; Introduction; The Painting and Scriptura Debate: Paragone, Social Positioning, and the Status of Art in Ferrara; The Studiolo and Eleonora d'Aragona's Collections; Folding Images: Engaging with the Diptych Form; Word and Flesh: Caterina Vegri and the Corpo di Christo Fabula and Forms of Assembly: Paragone and the IntertextCitation, Imitation, and the Spaces of Collection; Other Forms of Citation in Eleonora d'Aragona's Collections; Collection as Assembly: Conclusion; Fast Forward 500+ Years: Landy's Saints Alive; Four The Order of the Ermine: Collars, Cloaks, and the Circulation of The Sign; Introduction; The Aragonese Orders of the Jar and the Ermine; The Statutes of the Order of the Ermine; Members and International Association; Representations of the Ermine: The Circulation of the Sign; Ceremonial: Mantles, Collars, and Bodily Inscription Allegorical Representations of the Order of the Ermine: Ercole de' Roberti's Famous WomenThe Obligation of the Sign: Conclusion; Conclusion: Towards A New Understanding of Objects at Court; Appendix: Eleonora d'Aragona's Inventories; Notes; Introduction; 1 Carafa's testa di cavallo; 2 Practices of Exchange; 3 Intertextuality and Collection at the Court of Ferrara; 4 The Order of the Ermine; Conclusion; Primary Archival Sources; Archives Consulted and Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; Plates Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-313) and index Notes Print version record Subject Art -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy Art objects -- Collectors and collecting -- Italy Art, Renaissance -- Italy. Courts -- Italy -- History ART -- History -- General. Courts Art, Renaissance Art -- Collectors and collecting Art objects -- Collectors and collecting Geschenk Hermelin Motiv Höfische Kunst Kunst Kunstsammler Mäzenatentum Italy Italien Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781108681155 1108681158 1108586538 9781108586535

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