A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance

297 Pages·2022·9.394 MB·English

by  James Symonds

A CULTURAL HISTORY
OF OBJECTS
VOLUME 3
A Cultural History of Objects
General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte
Volume 1
A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity
Edited by Robin Osborne
Volume 2
A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age
Edited by Julie Lund and Sarah Semple
Volume 3
A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance
Edited by James Symonds
Volume 4
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Audrey Horning
Volume 5
A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry
Edited by Carolyn L. White
Volume 6
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age
Edited by Laurie A. Wilkie and John M. Chenoweth
A CULTURAL HISTORY
OF OBJECTS
IN THE
RENAISSANCE
VOLUME 3
Edited by James Symonds
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For Bram Kempers
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CONTENTS
List of iLLustrations ix
series Preface xv
Introduction
James Symonds 1
1 Objecthood
Visa Immonen 33
2 Technology
Surekha Davies 57
3 Economic Objects
Martha C. Howell 79
4 Everyday Objects
Peter Stallybrass 103
5 Art
Jill Burke 125
6 Architecture
Michael J. Waters 151
7 Bodily Objects
Susan Gaylard 173
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8 Object Worlds
Andrew Morrall 195
notes 218
BiBLiograPhy 232
notes on contriButors 267
index 270
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
0.1 Overweight David tourist souvenir, San Gimignano, Tuscany.
Based on a German Olympics campaign advert developed by
Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany. Photograph: Alamy.com 21
0.2 Albrecht Dürer, The Rhinoceros, 1515. © The National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC 23
0.3 Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait, 1434. © The National Gallery,
London 26
1.1 A late fourteenth- or early fifteenth-century aquamanile of
bronze made in the southern Netherlands. Photograph:
Artokoloro/Alamy Ltd 36
1.2 Thomas Digges’s (c. 1546–1595) depiction of the Copernican
universe in the 1576 edition of his father’s, Leonard Digges’s,
perpetual almanac. Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images 41
1.3 An illustration of the relationship between the human organs,
the four humors, and the signs of the zodiac in the 1508 edition
of Gregor Reisch’s (1467–1525) Margarita Philosophica.
© Hulton Archive/Getty Images 43
1.4 Magical objects, which allegedly belonged to John Dee (1527–1608/
1609), an English scholar and advisor of Queen Elizabeth I
(1533–1603). © Trustees of The British Museum, London 45