Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe

The early modern period saw the proliferation of religious, public and charitable institutions and the emergence of new educational structures. By bringing together two areas of inquiry that have so far been seen as distinct, the study of institutions and that of the house and domesticity, this collection provides new insights into the domestic experience of men, women and children who lived in non-family arrangements, while also expanding and problematizing the notion of 'domestic interior'. Through specific case studies, contributors reassess the validity of the categories 'domestic' and 'institutional' and of the oppositions private public, communal individual, religious profane applied to institutional spaces and objects. They consider how rituals, interior decorations, furnishings and images were transferred from the domestic to the institutional interior and vice versa, but also the creative ways in which the residents participated in the formation of their living settings. A variety of secular and religious institutions are considered: hospitals, asylums and orphanages, convents, colleges, public palaces of the ducal and the papal court. The interest and novelty of this collection resides in both its subject matter and its interdisciplinary and Europe-wide dimension. The theme is addressed from the perspective of art history, architectural history, and social, gender and cultural history. Chapters deal with Italy, Britain, the Netherlands, Flanders and Portugal and with both Protestant and Catholic settings. The wide range of evidence employed by contributors includes sources - such as graffiti, lottery tickets or garland pictures - that have rarely if ever been considered by historians.

ISBN 0754656470   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780754656470 (What's this?)   Pages 300 Publisher Ashgate Publishing Group   Published in Aldershot Imprint Ashgate Publishing Limited   Series title Visual Culture in Early Modernity Format Hardback   Height (mm) 244 Publication date 23 Dec 2009   Width (mm) 172 DEWEY 392.3   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		List of illustrations
		Introduction by Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti
Pt. I		Organizing and representing spaces
1		A temporary home: Bramante's Conclave Hall for Julius II by Henry Dietrich Fernandez
2		Renaissance graffiti: the case of the Ducal Palace of Urbino by Raffaella Sarti
3		The Oxford college as household, 1580-1640 by Louise Durning
4		Domestic spatial economies and Dutch charitable institutions in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries by Jane Kromm
5		The housing of institutional architecture: searching for a domestic holy in post-Tridentine Italian convents by Helen Hills
Pt. II		The meaning and use of objects
6		From court to cloister and back again: Margherita Gonzaga, Caterina de'Medici and Lucrina Fetti at the convent of Sant'Orsola in Mantua by Molly Bourne
7		Between spiritual and material culture: male and female objects at the Portuguese court, 1480-1580 by Isabel dos Guimaraes Sa
8		The reception of garland pictures in seventeenth-century Flanders and Italy by Susan Merriam
9		A home fit for children: the material possessions of Amsterdam orphans by Anne E. C. McCants
		Bibliography
		Index

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