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Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture (Hardcover)
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Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture (Hardcover)
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
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The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern
Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of
their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of
art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of
objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and
building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures
on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the
contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness
and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took
on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and
methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians
of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early
modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse
as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals,
Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting
volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the
modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history.
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