Women and networks in the late Renaissance

In 1982, in the course of transferring the archive of the De Paoli family of Porciorasco to the Museo Contadino di Cassego (eastern Ligurian Apennines), a manuscript herbal dated about 1598 was discovered. The document is analysed here in all its aspect: the materials (paper, inks and pigments), the plants represented, the iconographical models, and the archival context. The result is a hypothesis about the circulation of knowledge about natural history in the area where it was found and used between the late sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries. As for the iconographical sources, models were found in both manuscripts and printed books from the medico-botanical tradition, including Hortus sanitatis and Tractatus de virtutibus herbarum.

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The Invention of Papal History

10.1093/oso/9780198807001.001.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefan Bauer

Keyword(s):

Catholic Reformation ◽

History Writing ◽

Historical Texts ◽

The Past ◽

History Of ◽

Cultural Standards ◽

Commissioned Works ◽

The One ◽

Late Renaissance ◽

The Church

How was the history of post-classical Rome and of the Church written in the Catholic Reformation? Historical texts composed in Rome at this time have been considered secondary to the city’s significance for the history of art. The Invention of Papal History corrects this distorting emphasis and shows how history-writing became part of a comprehensive formation of the image and self-perception of the papacy. By presenting and fully contextualizing the path-breaking works of the Augustinian historian Onofrio Panvinio (1530–68), this book shows what type of historical research was possible in the late Renaissance and the Catholic Reformation. Historiography in this period by no means consisted entirely of commissioned works written for patrons; rather, a creative interplay existed between, on the one hand, the endeavours of authors to explore the past and, on the other hand, the constraints of patronage and ideology placed on them. This book sheds new light on the changing priorities, mentalities, and cultural standards that flourished in the transition from the Renaissance to the Catholic Reformation.

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Introduction

10.1093/oso/9780198800095.003.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Tom Hamilton

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Material Culture ◽

Early Modern ◽

Everyday Life ◽

Civil Wars ◽

Modern History ◽

Early Modern History ◽

History Of Collecting ◽

History Of ◽

Late Renaissance

This chapter explores the material culture of everyday life in late-Renaissance Paris by setting L’Estoile’s diaries and after-death inventory against a sample of the inventories of thirty-nine of his colleagues. L’Estoile and his family lived embedded in the society of royal office-holders and negotiated their place in its hierarchy with mixed success. His home was cramped and his wardrobe rather shabby. The paintings he displayed in the reception rooms reveal his iconoclastic attitude to the visual, contrasting with the overwhelming number of Catholic devotional pictures displayed by his colleagues. Yet the collection he stored in his study and cabinet made him stand out in his milieu as a distinguished curieux. It deserves a place in the early modern history of collecting, as his example reveals that the civil wars might be a stimulus as much as a disruption to collecting in sixteenth-century France.

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Susanna Berger, The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017. Pp. xvi+317. $65.00.

History of Humanities ◽

10.1086/710295 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 543-546

Author(s):

Floris Solleveld

Keyword(s):

Visual Thinking ◽

Princeton University ◽

Late Renaissance

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‘Remplis l’air d’alegresse pour ce seigneur chery des cieux’: Music in the Entries of Nobility and Other Dignitaries in Late Renaissance France (c.1585–c.1615)

Journal of the Royal Musical Association ◽

10.1017/rma.2021.3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 146 (1) ◽

pp. 181-218

Author(s):

ALEXANDER ROBINSON

Keyword(s):

Dance Music ◽

Late Renaissance ◽

Musical Elements

AbstractAlthough royal entries have long been studied by scholars, those undertaken by nobles and other political figures have generally attracted less attention. This is particularly true in musicological literature, a fact undoubtedly attributable to the paucity of surviving documentation on this topic. Yet music often played an important part in these spectacles, both by underlining the dignitary’s status and by enhancing key components of the symbolism deployed. Rather than concentrating on one particular event, this article brings together information about as many entries as possible made by such figures into French cities in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This enables us to make general observations about the types of music used in these events (such as fanfares, Te Deums and dance music) in order to draw possible connections with extant musical sources, and also to ponder why certain musical elements mattered more than others to the contemporaries describing these occasions.

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