Seminar 16
The Empire of Luxuries
Seminar questions
鈥淭he early-modern increase in the consumption of luxury objects shows the growing complexity of European social stratification鈥�. Discuss
Did technical innovations respond to the growing demand for arts among early modern Europeans or did they cause it?
Suggested reading
Book Illumination
Alexander, J.J.G., Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work, New Haven-London 1992 [ND 2920.A5]
Alexander, J.J.G. (ed), The Painted Page: Italian Renaissance Book Illumination, London-Munich 1994 [ND 3159.P2]
Farquhar, James Douglas, Creation and Imitation: The Work of a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Illuminator, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1976 [ND 3150.M2]
Ceramics
Goldthwaite, Richard A., 鈥楾he Economic and Social World of Italian Renaissance Maiolica鈥�, in Renaissance Quarterly, 42 (1989), pp. 1-32 [Jstor]
Hildyard, Robin, European Ceramics, London 1999 [being processed]
Johnson, Jerah, 鈥楤ernard Palissy, Prophet of Modern Ceramics鈥�, Sixteenth Century Journal, 14 (1983), pp. 399-410 [Jstor]
Kingery, W. David, 鈥楶ainterly Maiolica of the Italian Renaissance鈥�, Technology and Culture, 34 (1993), pp. 28-48 [Project Muse]
Mallet, J.V.G., 鈥楳antua and Urbino: Gonzaga Patronage of Maiolica鈥�, Apollo, 14 (1981), pp. 162-169 [Arts Periodicals]
Mallet, J.V.G., 鈥楾he Gonzaga and Ceramics鈥�, in Splendours of the Gonzaga, ed. by David Chambers and Jane Martineau, London 1982, pp. 39-43 [N 6921.M3]
Thornton, Dora, 鈥楳aiolica Production in Renaissance Italy鈥�, Pottery in the Making: World Ceramic Traditions, eds. Ian Freestone and David Gaimster., London 1997, pp. 116-121 [NK 3780.P6]
Wilson, Timothy, Ceramic Art of the Italian Renaissance, London 1987 [NK 4103.W4]
Wilson, Timothy, Italian Maiolica of the Renaissance, Milan 1996
Metals
Hackenbroch, Yvonne, Renaissance Jewellery, Munich 1979 [NK 5106.F4]
Hayward, J.F., Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620, London 1976 [NK 7109.H2]
Somers Cocks, Anna, 鈥楾he Myth of 鈥淏urgundian鈥� Goldsmithing and the Function of Plate at the Burgundian Court鈥�, The Connoisseur, 194 (1977), pp. 180-186 [Arts Periodicals]
Somers Cocks, Anna, Princely Magnificence: Court Jewels in the Renaissance 1500-1630, London 1980 [NK 7409.P7]
Tait, G. Hugh, Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery, London 1986
Precious Stones
Butters, Suzanne, The Thriumph of Vulcan: Sculptors鈥� Tools, Porphiry, and the Prince in Ducal Florence, 2 vols., Florence 1996 [NB 615.B8]
Giusti, Annamaria, 鈥楾he Origins and Splendors of the Grand-Ducal Pietre Dure Workshop鈥�, in The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence, New Haven-London 2002, pp. 103-111 [N 6921.F7]
Perry, M., 鈥榃ealth, Art and Display: The Grimani Cameos in Renaissance Venice鈥�, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 56 (1993), pp. 268-273 [Arts Periodicals]
Textiles
Adelson, Candace, 鈥楥osimo I and the Foundation of Tapestry Production in Florence鈥�, in Firenze e la Toscana dei Medici nell'Europa del Cinquecento, ed. by Gian Carlo Garfagnini, Florence 1983, vol. 3, pp. 899-924
Campbell, Thomas P., Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence, New York 2002 [NK 3007.C2]
Delmarcel, Guy, Flemish Tapestry Weavers Abroad. Emigration and the Founding of Manufactories in Europe, Leuven 2002
Goddard, Steven, 鈥楤rocade Patterns in the Shop of the Master of Frankfort: An Accessory to Stylistic Analysis鈥�, Art Bulletin, 67 (1985), pp. 401-417 [Arts Periodicals]
Newton, Stella Mary, The Dress of the Venetians 1495-1525, Aldershot 1988 [GT 964.N3]