At Home With Religion in Renaissance Italy
At Home With Religion in Renaissance Italy
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熟悉文艺复兴时期意大利的宗教
DOI:
10.1080/17432200.2017.1377448
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发表时间:
2017
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0.4
通讯作者:
Harris E
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作者:
Harris E
Peer through the keyhole of the Italian Renaissance home and discover a hidden world of religious devotion. Bringing together a wealth of objects, including jewelry, ceramics, books, sculptures, and paintings, the exhibition invites us into a domestic sphere that was charged with spiritual significance. 1Madonnas and Miracles brought together a range of objects to explore how private space in this historical period was infused with religious belief and practice. Relying almost entirely on artifacts to demonstrate the importance of religion in early modern domestic space, this exhibition successfully examined the materiality of religion in everyday life: objects on display included ceramics, paintings, engravings and devotional books, grouped around different themes from birth and death to family life, prayer and pilgrimage. Despite its thematic focus, the scope of the exhibition was much wider, with an impressive range of objects, practices and beliefs considered. The role of religion in Italian Renaissance homes was re-created through the material culture of these spaces, with the objects themselves pointing to the central place of faith within the home, and complicating narratives of secularism at this point in history. The objects displayed were both decorative and functional: some highly valuable or artistic, others inexpensive and well-worn. The curators did not draw distinctions between the two, but juxtaposed different shapes, styles and materials. For instance a holy water stoup and aspergillum (Egypt or Syria, ca. early fourteenth century) made of brass with gold and silver inlay was displayed in the same section as a tin-glazed, earthenware statue of the “Virgin and Child”(ca. 1350–1450) from a more “humble home.” This second artifact was partly broken, and many objects in the exhibition were worn, frayed or chipped with use, bearing traces of former owners: for example a religious