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Informationen zum Autor Pamela H. Smith is Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University in the City of New York Anne Dunlop is Associate Professor of Art History at Tulane University in New Orleans Klappentext Drawing on research and models from anthropology, material culture and art history, this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework, cork platforms for shoes and the Christian Eucharist. Zusammenfassung Drawing on research and models from anthropology! material culture and art history! this study explores topics as diverse as Inka stonework! cork platforms for shoes and the Christian Eucharist. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I:Matter 1. The matter of the medium: some tools for an art-theoretical interpretation of materials - Ann-Sophie Lehmann 2. The matter of ideas in the working of metals in early modern Europe - Pamela H. Smith 3. On the origins of European painting materials, real and imagined - Anne Dunlop 4. Gold coins and gold leaf in early Italian paintings - Irma Passeri Part II: Practices 5. The 'Genealogy of Jean le Blanc': accounting for the materiality of the medieval Eucharist - Aden Kumler 6. Lead white's mysteries - Spike Bucklow 7. Material distinctions: plaster, terracotta and wax in the Renaissance artist's workshop - Eckart Marchand 8. Rocks and reverence: Inka and Spanish perceptions of stonework in the early modern Andes - Carolyn Dean Part III: Cultural logics 9. Precious stones, material beings: performative materiality in fifteenth-century northern art - Brigitte Buettner 10. Carving life: the meaning of wood in early modern European sculpture - Christina Neilson 11. Arti povere, 1300-1650 - Michael Cole 12. Polish stone, Venetian glass, and red Hungarian marble: the materials of a Renaissance chapel in Jagiellonian Poland - Katie Jakobiec 13. Reveal or conceal: chopines and the display of material wealth in early modern Valencia and Venice - Elizabeth Semmelhack 14. Entanglements of body, text and stone: the crafting and connoisseurship of inkstones in eighteenth-century China - Dorothy Ko Index...
