Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture: 27 (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700)

Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture: 27 (Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700)
“by: Lauren Jacobi (Editor),Daniel Zolli(Editor),Carolina Mangone(Contributor),Grace Harpster(Contributor),Christopher Nygren(Contributor), Allison Stielau(Contributor), Sylvia Houghteling (Contributor), Amy Knight Powell (Contributor), Lisa Pon (Contributor), Carolyn Dean M.D. N.D. (Contributor), Dana Leibsohn (Contributor), Joseph Leo Koerner (Contributor),Caroline Jones (Contributor)&10more”
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Publication Date: 6 May 2021
Language:English
Print Length:368 pages
ISBN-10:9462988692
ISBN-13:9789462988699
Book Description
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.
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