The Art Collector in Early Modern Italy

Andrea Odoni and His Venetian Palace
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-84408-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 221 mm x 292 mm, Gewicht: 1179 g

Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the non-noble citizen class, Odoni understood how the power of art could make a name for himself and his family in his adopted homeland. Far from emulating Venetian patricians, however, he set himself apart through the works he collected and the way he displayed them. In this book, Monika Schmitter imaginatively reconstructs Odoni's house – essentially a 'portrait' of Odoni through his surroundings and possessions. Schmitter's detailed analysis of Odoni's life and portrait reveals how sixteenth-century individuals drew on contemporary ideas about spirituality, history, and science to forge their own theories about the power of things and the agency of object. She shows how Lotto's painting served as a meta-commentary on the practice of collecting and on the ability of material things to transform the self.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schmitter, Monika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Venice in transition; 2. Second generation venetian; 3. Odoni's facade; 4. Creating Rome in Venice: the Antigaia; 5. The Portego; 6. The Camere; 7. Transmuting the self: Lotto's Portrait of Odoni.

Über Autor(innen)

Schmitter, Monika
Monika Schmitter is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has written about collecting and domestic art in Venice for over twenty years. She was a Fellow at The Villa I Tatti Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies and at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.