Waxing devotion: the economic and devotional lifecycles of wax ex-votos in Florence 1300-1500

该项目考察了1300-1500年佛罗伦萨的蜡像的生产、获取、所有权、部署和来世，以探索这些日常供奉物品的意义、功能和视觉演变。蜡像是一种集美学、宗教、医学和经济于一体的类型。它提供了一个广阔的社会视角，不仅关注最高端的蜡脱油市场，而且调查了不同社会阶层部署的蜡脱油。这项研究的一个关键方面是一个数字人文项目，绘制了蜡工车间的位置。更广泛地说，该项目旨在促进我们对作为艺术作品的前voto的理解，这是一个迄今为止被忽视的类别，以及14世纪和15世纪对个人视觉表现和人格可视化的概念。

This project examines the production, acquisition, ownership, deployment and afterlife of wax ex-votos - a genre at once aesthetic, religious, medicinal and economic - in Florence 1300-1500 to explore the meanings, functions and visual evolution of these everyday devotional objects. It offers a broad social perspective, being concerned not only with the highest end of the wax ex-voto market, but with investigating wax ex-votos deployed across different social classes. A key aspect of this research is a digital humanities project mapping the location of wax workers' workshops. More widely, the project aims to contribute to our understanding of the ex-voto as a work of art, a category hitherto neglected, as well as fourteenth and fifteenth century conceptions of the visual representation of the individual and the visualisation of personhood.