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Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation - The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes (Paperback, New edition)
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Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation - The Status and Functions of Italian Renaissance Plaquettes (Paperback, New edition)
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Italian Renaissance 'plaquettes' are often stored and displayed as
a homogeneous category or genre in museum collections due to their
apparently uniform small relief format. This has resulted in a
scholarly literature that has concentrated largely on
connoisseurship and taken the form of catalogues, thereby both
responding to and propagating the myth of this classification.
However, what is often forgotten, or buried deep in scattered
catalogue entries, is that during the Renaissance this small relief
format was regularly mass-produced and employed extensively in a
variety of different contexts. Far from being a homogeneous
category, plaquettes were originally viewed as many separate types
of object, including pieces for personal adornment, liturgical
objects, domestic artefacts, and models for architecture and
painting. For the Renaissance consumer, the commission of a hat
badge with a personal motto, the purchase of an off-the-shelf
inkwell or the acquisition of a small relief for his study were
separate concerns. The aim of this book is to redress the balance
by examining these reliefs in terms of their use, alongside broader
issues regarding the status of such objects within visual,
scholarly and artistic culture from the fifteenth century to the
early sixteenth.
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