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Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting discusses the representation of Italian Renaissance patterned silks in paintings from Italy and the Southern Netherlands , from the 14th to the 16th century. It is the first study to approach this subject from the perspective of material culture, attempting to answer such questions as why the subject of luxury textiles gained so great a popularity in Renaissance painting, how artists catered for an audience that desired to have gold brocades depicted but did not always possess the financial means to own the actual fabrics, and what the skills artists developed in this field contributed to the rising social status of the medium of painting. The material culture of the grand courts at which real gold brocade played an essential role in the display of wealth and status is compared to that of the socially ambitious but less affluent middle class for whom paintings were often the only affordable substitute for courtly splendour. Thus, the book also addresses the problem of the distinction between fact and fiction, imagination and reality in the account of contemporary social history presented in paintings.

Painting --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Textile fabrics in art --- Painting, Renaissance --- Painting, Dutch --- Brocade --- Material culture --- Textiles et tissus dans l'art --- Peinture de la Renaissance --- Peinture hollandaise --- Brocart --- Culture matérielle --- History --- Histoire --- Culture matérielle --- Painting, Netherlandish --- Netherlandish painting --- Silk --- Textile fabrics --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- History. --- Painting, Renaissance - Italy --- Painting, Renaissance - Netherlands

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Archeology --- Stone age --- Paleolithic period --- Human settlements --- Material culture --- Paleoecology --- Human beings --- Paléolithique --- Etablissements humains --- Culture matérielle --- Paléoécologie --- Homme --- Congresses --- Migrations --- Congrès --- Conferences - Meetings --- Paléolithique --- Culture matérielle --- Paléoécologie --- Congrès --- Paléolithique supérieur --- Économie préhistorique --- Habitat préhistorique --- Établissements humains préhistoriques --- Economics, Prehistoric --- Dwellings, Prehistoric --- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric --- Paléolithique supérieur --- Économie préhistorique --- Habitat préhistorique --- Établissements humains préhistoriques

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"The dominance of economic repertories of value is a relatively new phenomenon, and one which directly correlates to the steady advent of capitalism in early modern Europe. This volume brings together scholars with expertise in a variety of related fields, including economic history, the history of consumption and material culture, art history, and the history of collecting, to explore changing concepts of value from the early modern period to the nineteenth century and present a new view on the advent of modern economic practices. Jointly, they fundamentally challenge traditional historical narratives about the rise of our contemporary market economy and consumer society"--

History of Europe --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Consumption (Economics) --- Material culture --- Capital market --- Fair value --- Valuation --- Consommation (Economie politique) --- Culture matérielle --- Marché financier --- Juste valeur --- Valuation, Theorie des --- History. --- Histoire --- Accounting --- Appraisal --- Capitalization (Finance) --- Economic valuation --- Property --- Value --- Public utilities --- Fair market value --- Finance --- Financial institutions --- Loans --- Money market --- Securities --- Crowding out (Economics) --- Efficient market theory --- Capital markets --- Market, Capital --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Demand (Economic theory) --- Consumer demand --- Consumer spending --- Consumerism --- Spending, Consumer --- Rates --- History --- Culture matérielle --- Marché financier --- Geschiedenis van Europa

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"Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, European Christians used in worship a plethora of objects, not only prayer books, statues, and paintings but also pieces of natural materials, such as stones and earth, considered to carry holiness, dolls representing Jesus and Mary, and even bits of consecrated bread and wine thought to be miraculously preserved flesh and blood. Theologians and ordinary worshippers alike explained, utilized, justified, and warned against some of these objects, which could carry with them both anti-Semitic charges and the glorious promise of heaven. Their proliferation and the reaction against them form a crucial background to the European-wide movements we know today as "reformations" (both Protestant and Catholic). In a set of independent but inter-related essays, Caroline Bynum considers some examples of such holy things, among them beds for the baby Jesus, the headdresses of medieval nuns, and the footprints of Christ carried home from the Holy Land by pilgrims in patterns cut to their shape or their measurement in lengths of string. Building on and going beyond her well-received work on the history of materiality, Bynum makes two arguments, one substantive, the other methodological. First, she demonstrates that the objects themselves communicate a paradox of dissimilar similitude-that is, that in their very details they both image the glory of heaven and make clear that that heaven is beyond any representation in earthly things. Second, she uses the theme of likeness and unlikeness to interrogate current practices of comparative history. Suggesting that contemporary students of religion, art, and culture should avoid comparing things that merely "look alike," she proposes that humanists turn instead to comparing across cultures the disparate and perhaps visually dissimilar objects in which worshippers as well as theorists locate the "other" that gives their religion enduring power"--

Devotional objects --- Material culture --- Civilization, Medieval --- Resemblance (Philosophy) --- History --- Similarity --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Identity (Philosophical concept) --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Christianity --- Methodology --- Historiography --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Religious articles --- Sacramentals --- Liturgical objects --- 248.158 --- 248.159 --- 248.159 Devoties:--algemeen --- Devoties:--algemeen --- 248.158 Gebruik van vrome voorwerpen: wijwater; rozenkrans --- Gebruik van vrome voorwerpen: wijwater; rozenkrans --- Religious aspects --- E-books --- Christian spirituality --- Biography: 800-1199 --- anno 1200-1499 --- Europe --- 7.046 --- 27 "04/14" --- 27 "04/14" Histoire de l'Eglise--Middeleeuwen --- 27 "04/14" Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen --- Histoire de l'Eglise--Middeleeuwen --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Middeleeuwen --- 7.046 Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- Iconografie: mythologische-, religieuze-, epische voorstellingen. Legenden --- Devotional objects - Europe --- Material culture - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Material culture - Europe --- History - Methodology --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Objets religieux --- Culture matérielle --- Civilisation médiévale. --- Ressemblance (philosophie) --- Histoire --- Christianity. --- Methodology. --- Christianisme. --- Méthodologie. --- Objets de dévotion --- Moyen Age --- Iconography --- box beds --- antisemitism --- devotional objects --- footprints [foot impressions] --- godship --- nuns --- anno 800-1199