Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch's Books

Shopping in the Renaissance

Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600

By: Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch

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Shopping in the Renaissance

Consumer Cultures in Italy 1400-1600

By: Evelyn S. Welch,Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch,Lecturer Evelyn Welch

Shopping was as important in the Renaissance as it is in the 21st century. This book breaks new ground in the area of Renaissance material culture, focussing on the marketplace in its various aspects, ranging from middle-class to courtly consumption and from the provision of foodstuffs to the acquisition of antiquities and holy relics. It asks how men and women of different social classes went out into the streets, squares and shops to buy the goods they needed and wanted on a daily or on a once-in-a-lifetime basis during the Renaissance period. Drawing on a detailed mixture of archival, literary and visual sources, she exposes the fears, anxieties and social possibilities of the Renaissance marketplace. Thereafter, Welch looks at the impact these attitudes had on the developing urban spaces of Renaissance cities, before turning to more transient forms of sales such as fairs, auctions and lotteries. In the third section, she examines the consumers themselves, asking how the mental, verbal and visual images of the market shaped the business of buying and selling. Finally, the book explores two seemingly very different types of commodities - antiquities and indulgences, both of which posed dramatic challenges to contemporary notions of market value and to the concept of commodification itself.

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428

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Yale University Press

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0300107528

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9780300107524

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior

By: Professor Erin J Campbell

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Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior

By: Professor Erin J Campbell

Drawing on a wide range of visual and historical sources, this study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century. Erin Campbell argues that these images of unidentified women provide an opportunity to present new conceptual frameworks, and question our assumptions about old age, portraiture, and the domestic interior.

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201

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147244213X

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9781472442130

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint

By: Professor Penny Howell Jolly

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Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint

By: Professor Penny Howell Jolly

Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery - including her dress - in northern art 1430 to 1550, Penny Jolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drew upon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace a range of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint, erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jolly investigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasing religious tensions, expanding art markets, and changing roles for women.

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291

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472414950

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9781472414953

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

From Sprezzatura to Satire

By: Professor Eugenia Paulicelli

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Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

From Sprezzatura to Satire

By: Professor Eugenia Paulicelli

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the ‘animatedness of clothing,’ author Eugenia Paulicelli explores the political meanings that clothing produces in public space. At the core of the book is the idea that the texts examined here act as maps that, first, pinpoint the establishment of fashion as a social institution of modernity; and, second, gauge the meaning of clothing at a personal and a political level. As well as Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Cesare Vecellio’s The Clothing of the Renaissance World, the author looks at works by Italian writers whose books are not yet available in English translation, such as those by Giacomo Franco, Arcangela Tarabotti, and Agostino Lampugnani. Paying particular attention to literature and the relevance of clothing in the shaping of codes of civility and style, this volume complements the existing and important works on Italian fashion and material culture in the Renaissance. It makes the case for the centrality of Italian literature and the interconnectedness of texts from a variety of genres for an understanding of the history of Italian style, and serves to contextualize the debate on dress in other European literatures.

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281

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472436040

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9781472436047

Behind the Picture

Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance

By: British Academy Wolfson Research Professor Department of the History of Art Martin Kemp,Martin Kemp,Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp

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Behind the Picture

Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance

By: British Academy Wolfson Research Professor Department of the History of Art Martin Kemp,Martin Kemp,Emeritus Professor of the History of Art Martin Kemp

Considers the business of picture-making in the Renaissance. In particular, the text discusses the role of the artist and the functions of works of art in relation to their various kinds of audience.

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336

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Yale University Press

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0300071957

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9780300071955

Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang

By: Paul R. Katz,Professor of Medicine Paul R Katz, MD

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Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

The Cult of Marshal Wen in Late Imperial Chekiang

By: Paul R. Katz,Professor of Medicine Paul R Katz, MD

Provides a lively description of how the cult of a popular plague-fighting deity named Marshal Wen arose and spread in late imperial China.

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SUNY Press

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0791426610

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9780791426616

Book's by Professor of Renaissance Studies Evelyn Welch

Shopping in the Renaissance

Shopping in the Renaissance

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy

Behind the Picture

Behind the Picture

Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

Demon Hordes and Burning Boats

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