The Art of the Poor: The Aesthetic Material Culture of the Lower Classes in Europe 1300-1600

Title Page
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Contents
Illustrations
	Maps
	Figures
	Tables
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Did the poor have art?
Chapter 1: Material culture without objects: Artisan artistic commissions in early Renaissance Italy
Chapter 2: Poverty in the paintings of Jacopo Bassano: The crisis poor and the structural poor
Chapter 3: The ‘slipshod’ nature of Carpaccio’s St Tryphon Tames the Basilisk: A painting for a poor confraternity
Chapter 4: ‘. . . κέ παντός του λαου τοῡ χορίου τ(ης) Μάζας…’: Communal patronage of church decoration in rural Venetian Crete
Chapter 5: Next to Chur we are still poor: Art and the relationality of poverty in the Rhaetian Alps
Chapter 6: Miracles in the margins: The miraculous image of Santa Maria delle Carceri in Prato
Chapter 7: The art of popular piety: Pilgrim souvenirs from the Museum of London collection
Chapter 8: Artisans and dress in Denmark, 1550–1650: A preliminary exploration
Chapter 9: The art of artisan fashions: Moroni’s tailor and the changing culture of clothing in sixteenth-century Italy
Chapter 10: Identifying popular musical practice: Instruments and performance in the iconography and archaeology of the medieval and Renaissance period in Europe
Chapter 11: An art for everyman: The aspirations of the medieval potter
Chapter 12: Italian tin-glazed ceramics: Silverware for poor people?
Chapter 13: Ordinary objects for priceless lighting: Copper-alloy candlesticks in medieval and early modern England
Chapter 14: Burning issues: Political iconography on Dutch firebacks
Chapter 15: Visual pedagogy: The use of woodcuts in early modern Lutheran and Catholic catechisms
Chapter 16: Shakespeare’s picture of ‘We Three’: An image for illiterates?
Notes
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Chapter 9
	Chapter 10
	Chapter 11
	Chapter 12
	Chapter 13
	Chapter 14
	Chapter 15
	Chapter 16
Bibliography
Index