Conchophilia (eBook)

Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe

Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer, Claudia Swan (Autoren)

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2021
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22024-6 (ISBN)

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A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern EuropeAmong nature's most artful creations, shells have long inspired the curiosity and passion of artisans, artists, collectors, and thinkers. Conchophilia delves into the intimate relationship between shells and people, offering an unprecedented account of the early modern era, when the influx of exotic shells to Europe fueled their study and representation as never before. From elaborate nautilus cups and shell-encrusted grottoes to delicate miniatures, this richly illustrated book reveals how the love of shells intersected not only with the rise of natural history and global trade but also with philosophical inquiry, issues of race and gender, and the ascent of art-historical connoisseurship.Shells circulated at the nexus of commerce and intellectual pursuit, suggesting new ways of thinking about relationships between Europe and the rest of the world. The authors focus on northern Europe, where the interest and trade in shells had its greatest impact on the visual arts. They consider how shells were perceived as exotic objects, the role of shells in courtly collections, their place in still-life tableaus, and the connections between their forms and those of the human body. They examine how artists gilded, carved, etched, and inked shells to evoke the permeable boundary between art and nature. These interactions with shells shaped the ways that early modern individuals perceived their relation to the natural world, and their endeavors in art and the acquisition of knowledge.Spanning painting and print to architecture and the decorative arts, Conchophilia uncovers the fascinating ways that shells were circulated, depicted, collected, and valued during a time of remarkable global change.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.8.2021
• Co-Autor: Stephanie S. Dickey, Anna Grasskamp, Roisin Watson
• Zusatzinfo: 85 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Abraham Bloemaert • adage • Adriaen Coorte • Aestheticism • Aesthetics • Albertus Seba • Allusion • Amateur • Ambonese • Ancient Rome • Aquatic animal • archaeology • Argonauta argo • art dealer • Art History • Ashmolean Museum • Auction • Automaton • Balthasar van der Ast • Baruch Spinoza • Behavioral pattern • Bernard Palissy • Boss (crime) • Bottle • By Nature • Calculation • Chinese ceramics • Cittarium pica • Civilization • Clara Peeters • Classical Mythology • Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode • Cockle (bivalve) • Collecting • Colonialism • conchology • Consideration • cornelis • Criticism • crustacean • Death • Delft • depiction • Desiderius Erasmus • Dora Maar • Dordrecht • Dutch Golden Age • Early Modern Europe • early modern period • east indies • ecosystem • Emblem • Emblem book • Embroidery • engraving • Entertainment • ephemerality • erudition • Essay • etymology • evocation • exoskeleton • Exoticism • exploration • Fetishism • firearm • Forensic Science • Foxing • Furniture • Gastropod shell • George Vertue • goblet • God • Good government • Good Housekeeping • Govert Flinck • grand duke • Greek Mythology • Grief • Grotto • Guillaume Rondelet • Hairstyle • Handbook • Heinrich Aldegrever • Hendrik Goltzius • Hieronymus Bosch • Holy Roman Empire • horseshoe crab • Household • Housewife • Human • Illustration • Illustrator • Imagery • Indication (medicine) • Indigenous peoples • Indo-Pacific • Ingenuity • Inspection • Interior design • Jacob Cats • Jacques Callot • Jan Luyken • Jan Steen • Jean-Antoine Watteau • Joachim Wtewael • Johannes Kepler • John Lightfoot (biologist) • John Tradescant the Younger • Joost van den Vondel • Kara Walker • Karel Van Mander • lacquer • Lacquerware • landgrave • Land snail • Leonardo da Vinci • Levinus Vincent • Literature • Long poem • Lucas van Leyden • Magnificence (history of ideas) • Malacology • Man and Nature • Market Value • Martin Kemp (art historian) • material culture • Mathematical Proof • mathematician • Mathematics • medal • Mercure de France • Michel de Montaigne • midden • Middle Stone Age • mother • Mourning • Museum Mayer van den Bergh • nacre • Natural material • Natural Philosophy • Natural Theology • Nature morte (Metzinger) • New Thought • novelist • nudity • Opportunism • otium • Parchment • performativity • petrarch • Petronella Oortman • Philosophy • Pierre Belon • Pieter de Hooch • piety • Pinnidae • Pleasure • Pliny the Elder • Politician • Politics • popularity • Porcelain • Pottery • Precious coral • printmaking • private collection • Prized Possessions • Publication • reason • reginald scot • Renaissance Art • Rijksmuseum • Roemer Visscher • Romeyn de Hooghe • Ruler • Rumination (psychology) • Salomon de Caus • self-fashioning • Selfishness • sensibility • shaving • Shell money • Sincerity • Slavery • Social behavior • Social Group • Society of Jesus • Spanish Netherlands • Spontaneous Generation • Statue • still life • Suetonius • Superiority (short story) • Terminology • The Art Dealer • The Decoration of Houses • The Discoverie of Witchcraft • The Travels of Marco Polo • Thomas de Critz • Thought • treatise • Triangular Trade • Turbo marmoratus • Turkish carpet • Tyrian purple • Ulisse Aldrovandi • vellum • Vinegar • Visual Culture • Wampum • Wealth • Wenzel Jamnitzer • West Africa • whelk • Willem Kalf • workmanship • work of art • Writing • Young Man with a Skull • Zwolle
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22024-7 / 0691220247
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22024-6 / 9780691220246