Re-thinking Renaissance Objects
Design, Function and Meaning
Published on 26. April 2011
208 pages
978-1-4443-9675-1 (ISBN)
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Inspired by research undertaken for the new Medieval &Renaissance Galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum,Re-thinking Renaissance Objects explores and oftenchallenges some of the key issues and current debates relating toRenaissance art and culture.
* Puts forward original research, including evidence provided byan in-depth study arising from the Medieval & RenaissanceGallery project
* Contributions are unusual in their combination of a variety ofapproaches, but with each paper starting with an examination of theobjects themselves
* New theories emerge from several papers, some of whichchallenge current thinking
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Persons
Peta Motture is Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoriaand Albert Museum, and was previously Chief Curator of the Medieval& Renaissance Galleries. She has published widely onmedieval and later sculpture, specializing primarily in the ItalianRenaissance. Motture has co-curated several exhibitions and iscurator of the Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme atthe V&A.
Dr Michelle O'Malley is Reader in Art History at theUniversity of Sussex, where she has also held the position ofDirector of Research in the School of Humanities. Previously, shewas Head of Education for Exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts,London. Dr. O'Malley is the author of The Business of Art:Contracts and the Commissioning Process in Renaissance Italy(2005) and The Material Renaissance (co-edited with EvelynWelch, 2007).
Content
Notes on contributors ix
Introduction
Peta Motture and Michelle O'Malley 1
1 Finding fame: painting and the making of careers inRenaissance Italy
Michelle O'Malley 9
2 Set in stone: monumental altar frames in RenaissanceFlorence
Meghan Callahan & Donal Cooper 33
3 Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scalesculpture before 1500
Norbert Jopek 56
4 New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A
Nick Humphrey & Martino Ferrari Bravo 71
5 Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement
Elizabeth Miller & Alun Graves 94
6 Dancing, love and the 'beautiful game': a newinterpretation of a group of fi fteenth-century'gaming' boxes
Paula Nuttall 119
7 Sharing and status: the design and function of asixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and AlbertMuseum
Kirstin Kennedy 142
8 Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and therituals of dining
Flora Dennis 156
Bibliography 185
Index 212
