Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy

The Material Culture of the Middling Class
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6372-262-9
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 21, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1016 g

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Did ordinary Italians have a ‘Renaissance’? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth-century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and families at artisanal levels (such as shoemakers, barbers, bakers and innkeepers) lived and worked, managed their household economies and consumption, socialised in their homes, and engaged with the arts and the markets for luxury goods. It demonstrates that although the economic and social status of local craftsmen and traders was relatively low, their material possessions show how these men and women who rarely make it into the history books were fully engaged with contemporary culture, cultural customs and the urban way of life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hohti Erichsen, Paula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Money, Dates, and Measures

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Introduction

PART I

BOUNDARIES AND BORDERS: ARTISANS AND LOCAL TRADERS IN RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

Chapter 1: Artisans and Traders in Renaissance Siena

Chapter 2: The Economic Status of Sienese Artisans and Shopkeepers

Chapter 3: Boundaries, Borders and Hierarchies

PART II

CREATIVE ECONOMIES: THE ACQUISITION AND CIRCULATION OF MATERIAL GOODS

Chapter 4: Business and Income

Chapter 5: Buying and Acquiring Material Goods

Chapter 6: Dowries and the Circulation of Material Goods

PART III:

THE OWNERSHIP, DISPLAY, AND MEANINGS OF MATERIAL GOODS

Chapter 7: A Respectable and Comfortable Home

Chapter 8: Novelty, Refinement and 'Splendour'

Chapter 9: The Home on Show

Conclusion

Appendix

Glossary

Bibliography

About the Author

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hohti Erichsen, Paula
Paula Hohti Erichsen is Professor of the History of Art and Culture at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture in Helsinki, Finland, and scientific director of the ERC consolidator-grant funded project ‘Refashioning the Renaissance: Popular Groups, Fashion, and the Material and Cultural Significance of Clothing in Europe, 1550-1650’. She is specialized in studies of Italian Renaissance dress, material culture, and decorative arts, with a special focus on their role and function within the classes of artisans and shopkeepers.