Re-thinking Renaissance Objects: Design, Function and Meaning

Author:   Peta Motture (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) ,  Michelle O'Malley (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9781444337754


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 September 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Peta Motture (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK) ,  Michelle O'Malley (University of Sussex, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.381kg
ISBN:  

9781444337754


ISBN 10:   1444337750
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   30 September 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Notes on contributors ix Introduction Peta Motture and Michelle O’Malley 1 1 Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy Michelle O’Malley 9 2 Set in stone: monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence   Meghan Callahan & Donal Cooper 33 3 Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture 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 new interpretation of a group of fi fteenth-century ‘gaming’ boxes Paula Nuttall 119 7 Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum Kirstin Kennedy 142 8 Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining Flora Dennis 156 Bibliography 185 Index 212

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Peta Motture is Senior Curator of Sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum, and was previously Chief Curator of the Medieval & Renaissance Galleries.  She has published widely on medieval and later sculpture, specializing primarily in the Italian Renaissance. Motture has co-curated several exhibitions and is curator of the Robert H. Smith Renaissance Sculpture Programme at the V&A. Dr Michelle O'Malley is Reader in Art History at the University of Sussex, where she has also held the position of Director of Research in the School of Humanities. Previously, she was 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 Evelyn Welch, 2007).

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