Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period - Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition space in the early modern period.

List of contents

PART 1. Introduction
1. Reason for a Research
Pamela Bianchi
PART 2. Public Spaces
2. Trading Spaces: the display practices of an early modern auction in Edinburgh
Antonia Laurence-Allen
3. The Discourse of the Salon
Isabelle Piquet
4. Royal Spectacles & Social Networks: Early 18th-Century Salon Exhibition Practices
Mandy Paige-Lovingood
PART 3. Domestic Spaces
5. Exhibition Design, Display Strategies, and Aesthetic Promenades to the Court of Gonzaga
Pamela Bianchi
6. ‘A Treasure of Riches and Curiosities’ Politics of Display at the Garde-meuble de la Couronne, 1680-1789
Barbara Lasic
7. The Display of Metalwork in North European Domestic Spaces in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Hila Manor
PART 4. Religious and Political Spaces
8. Displaying Art in a Sacred Space: The Artworks for the Triunfo of St. Ferdinand in Seville Cathedral (1671)
Carmen González-Román
9. The Ephemeral Façade of Cardinal de Solis’s Palace: Aesthetics and Politics in 18th Century Rome
Ginevra Odone

About the author

Pamela Bianchi is an art historian and a professor in history of art and design at the ESAD in Toulon. Since 2013, Pamela has been an affi liated researcher of the lab AI- AC at the Paris 8 University.

Summary

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition space in the early modern period.

Product details

• Authors: Pamela Bianchi, Pamela (Ecole Superieure D''''art Et Desi Bianchi, Pamela (Professor Bianchi
• Assisted by: Pamela Bianchi (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781032202884
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3220288-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Travel > Travel guides; ART / History / General, ART / Museum Studies, ART / European, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Exhibition catalogues and specific collections, ART / History / European / Renaissance