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Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750, 2021
2019
This study examines how Venice features as a place of manufacture of and a point of purchase for quality goods in the Italian courts. It begins with Venetian objects in Eleonora d’Aragona’s collections, followed by a consideration of the interests of her children, Isabella and Alfonso d’Este’s in Venetian commodities. The objects considered include recognizable Venetian manufactures such as glass as well as items with more foreign origins such as Chinese porcelain. The terms by which objects were described, as well as the materials from which they were made, underline how the circulation of objects gave rise to a kaleidoscope of references to Venice. While the paintings of the studioli of Alfonso and Isabella d’Este have most often been the focus of their collecting habits in the literature, this chapter argues that paying attention to other categories of objects and materials such as glass and ceramics can also provide new insight into the spaces of collections and can inspire new ...
'The Matter of Objects' is a collaborative project that brings together the work of medieval and early modern researchers with contemporary art practitioners. Doctoral students from across Europe have identified objects that serve as gateways into their research. Objects include a sixteenth-century witch's bottle, a Bird of Paradise skin, and a seventeenth-century devotional print for the use of prayer beads. The doctoral students have been paired with artists of diverse media (sculpture, print, conceptual) to produce a response piece. This one-day event will bring the artists and researchers together to discuss the physical outcomes and their process in deconstructing and interpreting the stories in the materials. By creating a space for dialogue with practitioners, who approach the material from a practical angle, we hope to open the way for reinvigorated readings of objects from the past.
Renaissance Studies, 2006
The Journal of British Studies, 2011
Be it for longer or shorter periods of their lives, many early modern Italian male aristocrats experienced living without a female presence. 1 Many brothers, especially members of the clergy but also other unmarried males, occupied an apartment within the house of the firstborn, or of whomever would inherit the family estate. In some cases, up until the diffusion of primogeniture in the second half of the sixteenth century (but in others even later), two or more brothers shared the family house or the insula where they had separate residences with their own entrance. 2 The part of the house belonging to the prelate in the family, especially where this was a cardinal's court, would be occupied mainly and sometimes exclusively by men, assisted and served by other men, be they churchmen, secretaries, butlers, chaplains or servants. In the last few years, the scope for research in the history of masculinity has widened and this Special Issue on 'Men at Home' is clear evidence of this. Research has been concentrated in particular (but not exclusively) on the figurehead of the family and on marriage, showing how this was just as crucial a moment for men as it was for women. 3 Masculinity has been primarily read through the categories of authority, domesticity and household production, suggesting that 'becoming a man' coincided with being able to support a domestic unit, by protecting it and providing for it. But this was not the only possible model of masculinity. 4 Growing up in the aristocracy meant being able to curb one's impulses and displaying such virtues as gentility and courtesy. This essay, while examining the domestic space of certain unmarried men in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Rome and Siena, seeks to highlight a kind of masculinity that differed from that of the married head of the family. Some Italian prelates pursuing a career within the Roman Curia often gained remunerative positions in the Papal City and would rent apartments where they held court; these were in fact both public and private dwellings. As the seat of an elected male monarch since the return of popes from Avignon at the beginning of the fifteenth
Material Religion, 2012
Art History, 2017
Journal of Women's History, 2020
The late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries experienced an upsurge in the number of proceedings against stregheria, the Italian term for witchcraft and various forms of popular magic, pursued by the Holy Office, Venice’s branch of the Inquisition. Scattered throughout witness testimony, many of these cases contain accounts of objects referred to as stregamenti, witchcraft things. This article examines the descriptions and role of stregamenti in Holy Office records to better understand how women practitioners and observers of stregheria perceived physical objects as potential sources of agency and, more broadly, analyzes the late Rinascimento Venetian belief in the ability of material things to take on spiritual significance. By employing material culture methodologies, this article utilizes promising new avenues for understanding how the meanings and uses of material things were constantly negotiated by female practitioners of magic in late Rinascimento Venice, a material realm believed to be infused with spiritual possibilities.
Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa
Clinical Medicine Research, 2024
Autentik : Jurnal Pengembangan Pendidikan Dasar, 2022
Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2002
المجلة العملیة التجارة والتمویل, 2012
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2013
JUSTIMES (Jurnal Rekayasa Teknik Mesin Saburai)
European Journal of Geography, 2022
Experiments in Fluids, 2008
The Literary Encyclopedia, 2024