Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy
The Art of Play
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2026
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-374-9 (ISBN)
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
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This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.
This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one founded not only on iterative performances, but also through a visual and material culture imbricated in early modern Italy’s ideologically inflected artistic, scientific, and social systems.
As this book demonstrates, the materia of play took part in shaping the imaginary of the Cinquecento and its roots in the Quattrocento within a network of interwoven courts, intellectual circles, and civic centers situated on the Italian peninsula. For makers, players, viewers, and patrons, for lords, professional athletes, and gambling workmen, the visual culture of games—the art of play—stood at the very center of the world we have long known as the Renaissance.
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy above all focuses on how the material and visual cultures of games shaped their performance and practice and, crucially, our knowledge of the past. The structure of this book echoes infamous gambler and polymath Cardano’s categorization of games as Games of Wit (including both skill and mixed skill and chance), Games of Fortune (including both chance and Terence’s fate), and Games of Vigor (including athletics of agility and strength).This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.
This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one founded not only on iterative performances, but also through a visual and material culture imbricated in early modern Italy’s ideologically inflected artistic, scientific, and social systems.
As this book demonstrates, the materia of play took part in shaping the imaginary of the Cinquecento and its roots in the Quattrocento within a network of interwoven courts, intellectual circles, and civic centers situated on the Italian peninsula. For makers, players, viewers, and patrons, for lords, professional athletes, and gambling workmen, the visual culture of games—the art of play—stood at the very center of the world we have long known as the Renaissance.
Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy above all focuses on how the material and visual cultures of games shaped their performance and practice and, crucially, our knowledge of the past. The structure of this book echoes infamous gambler and polymath Cardano’s categorization of games as Games of Wit (including both skill and mixed skill and chance), Games of Fortune (including both chance and Terence’s fate), and Games of Vigor (including athletics of agility and strength).This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.
Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Assistant Professor of Art History – Museum & Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee. Her work on the visual and material culture of sports and games has appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as Art History and Renaissance Studies.
1. What Were Renaissance Games? 2. Games of Wit 3. Games of Fortune 4. Games of Vigor
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 27.5.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cultures of Play |
| Zusatzinfo | 113 Halftones, color; 113 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | Amsterdam |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 174 x 246 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| ISBN-10 | 94-6372-374-9 / 9463723749 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-94-6372-374-9 / 9789463723749 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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