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Rublack concentrates on leather. Its rich sensory and visual appeal underlines the contemporary importance of materials other than pigment and marble. As organic, \"decorative\" stuff, most Renaissance leatherwork hasn't survived or been conserved. The demand for leather developed significantly in this period, as did skills in processing it during the sixteenth century. Focusing on a man who lived in this newly leather-hungry European world, she explores meanings of leather for Hans Fugger of Augsburg, a German merchant, patrician and Swabian territorial lord. She determines how Fugger used shoes in his costume and leather wallpaper in his domestic display to reconstruct how he presented as well as experienced the properties of leather as matter within a precise political, socio-economic and cultural context.
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Renaissance Dress, Cultures of Making, and the Period Eye
This article argues that fashion was at the forefront of Renaissance visual styles. This makes it as important as paintings for understanding the Renaissance as an aesthetic movement. An understanding of fashion follows from a knowledge of how things were made and what visual skills were involved in the making processes. I propose that we see tailoring as akin to a process of polychrome sculpting and investigate the significance of color making. The article explores the political and emotional meanings of color in the early sixteenth century and demonstrates how remaking can be part of a heuristic process for academics. Building on Michael Baxandall, the article concludes that dress needs to become firmly embedded in our conception of the period eye.
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The astronomer & the witch : Johannes Kepler's fight for his mother
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
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Knowledge Production, Image Networks, and the Material Significance of Feathers in Late Humanist Heidelberg
Examining the three volumes of birds assembled by Marcus zum Lamm (1544–1606), a Calvinist lawyer, court official, and church councillor in Heidelberg, this article explores visual and material cultures at a Calvinist court. We argue that Lamm was a pioneer in the production of new ornithological knowledge, an entrepreneur and enthusiast who experimented with colors and the arts in order to develop a means of representation that captured the vibrancy of feathers as a new and hitherto-unexplored feature for the classification of birds.
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Grapho-Relics: Lutheranism and the Materialization of the Word
By inquiring into word-related practices for what is often rather casually typified as \"the religion of the word\", this article seeks to contribute to an emerging history of Lutheran identities and memory culture. It draws particular attention to the importance of Luther's and other leading reformers' handwritten autographs and inscriptions as mediated physical remains which were intensely treasured by their followers. These \"grapho-relics\" need to be integrated into our understanding of the distinct spiritual as well as cultic nature of Lutheranism, which was developed by Luther and adapted by Lutherans for generations to come. (Quotes from original text)
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