Lauren Jacobi (Editor)
Zolli, Daniel M. (Editor)
Amsterdam University Press
Edition Details: Book Series: Visual and material culture, 1300-1700, no. 27
Physical Details: 366
Language: English
The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Lilian H. Zirpolo (Summer 2023) Review of "Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 665-667).
Chapter Leibsohn, Dana; Dean, Carolyn J. (2021) Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamation, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas. In: Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture.
Chapter Pon, Lisa (2021) Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice. In: Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture.
Chapter Lauren Jacobi (2021) Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes. In: Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture.
Chapter Allison Stielau (2021) Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery': Purity and Contamination in Clement VII's Emergency Currency'. In: Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture.
Chapter Carolina Mangone Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo's Non-finito. In: Contamination and purity in early modern art and architecture.
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