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Clark, Leah R.
(2011).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/157006511X565512
URL: http://brill.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/...
Abstract
This article examines the circulation of gems, jewelry, and antique hardstones, through merchant-banking networks in Italy in the late Quattrocento. The practices of pawning and exchange facilitated the circulation of objects, causing those goods to change hands constantly and to come into contact with a wide range of individuals, a process through which these artifacts accrued histories. Particular gems were sought after, not only for their material or artistic worth, but also for their histories and their previous illustrious owners, and many jewels were invested with names. Aside from their physical circulation, these objects were disseminated in visual form through replication across media, which raises questions around ownership, copies, and collections in the late fifteenth century.
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- Item ORO ID
- 37733
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1570-0658
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Not Set Not Set Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Keywords
- Florence; Ferrara; credit; mercantile exchange; art history; merchant-bankers; Naples; antiquities; collecting; early modern networks; Italy; court culture; pawning
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
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- © 2011 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden
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- Leah Clark