Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy

The Material Culture of the Middling Class

Paula Hohti Erichsen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

364 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-17585-8 (ISBN)

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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. There is a focus on Renaissance Siena, a city that is rarely included in studies of the Italian Renaissance.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	03.12.2025
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10	1-041-17585-X / 104117585X
ISBN-13	978-1-041-17585-8 / 9781041175858
Zustand	Neuware