Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period: Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces

181 Pages·2022·66.664 MB·English

by  Pamela Bianchi

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Displaying Art in the Early Modern Period
From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious appar-
atus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits, and spaces that
contributed to defining exhibition practices and shaping the imagery of the exhibition
space in the early modern period.
The contributors encourage connections between art history, exhibition studies,
and architectural history, and explore micro-h istories and long- term changes in order
to open new perspectives for studying these pioneering exhibition-m aking practices.
Aiming to understand what spaces have done and still do to art, the book explores an
underdeveloped area in the field that has yet to trace its interdisciplinary nature and
understand its place in the history of art.
The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies,
exhibition history, and architectural history.
Pamela Bianchi is an art historian and a professor in history of art and design at the
ESAD in Toulon. Since 2013, Pamela has been an affiliated researcher of the lab AI- AC
at the Paris 8 University.
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Displaying Art in the Early
Modern Period
Exhibiting Practices and Exhibition Spaces
Edited by Pamela Bianchi
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Cover image: ‘Men and two dogs in a bookshop’ by Dirck de Bray 1607- 1678. Pen in brown,
brush in grey. 76mm x 76mm. RP- T- 1884- A- 290 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Names: Bianchi, Pamela, editor.
Title: Displaying art in the early modern period : exhibiting practices and
exhibition spaces / edited by Pamela Bianchi.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2022. |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022009434 (print) | LCCN 2022009435 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781032202884 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032214719 (paperback) |
ISBN 9781003268550 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Art–Exhibition techniques.
Classification: LCC N4395 .D574 2022 (print) |
LCC N4395 (ebook) | DDC 707.4–dc23/eng/20220521
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009434
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022009435
ISBN: 978- 1- 032- 20288- 4 (hbk)
ISBN: 978- 1- 032- 21471- 9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978- 1- 003- 26855- 0 (ebk)
DOI: 10.4324/ 9781003268550
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors ix
PART 1
Introduction 1
1 Reason for a Research 3
PAMELA BIANCHI
PART 2
Public Spaces 13
2 Trading Spaces: The Display Practices of an Early Modern
Auction in Edinburgh 15
ANTONIA LAURENCE ALLEN
3 The Discourse of the Salon 39
ISABELLE PICHET
4 Royal Spectacles and Social Networks: Early 18th- Century
Salon Exhibition Practices 54
MANDY PAIGE- LOVINGOOD
PART 3
Domestic Spaces 71
5 Exhibition Design, Display Strategies, and Aesthetic Promenades
at the Court of Gonzaga 73
PAMELA BIANCHI
6 “A Treasure of Riches and Curiosities”: Politics of Display at the
Garde- Meuble de la Couronne, 1680– 1789 87
BARBARA LASIC
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7 The Display of Metalwork in North European Domestic Spaces
in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 110
HILA MANOR
PART 4
Religious and Political Spaces 129
8 Displaying Art in a Sacred Space: The Artworks for the Triunfo
of St. Ferdinand in Seville Cathedral (1671) 131
CARMEN GONZÁLEZ- ROMÁN AND HILARY MACARTNEY
9 The Ephemeral Façade of Cardinal de Solis’s Palace: Aesthetics
and Politics in 18th- Century Rome 153
GINEVRA ODONE
Index 169
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Figures
2.1 Title page of Edinburgh auction catalogue 22
2.2 Page 5 of Edinburgh auction catalogue 23
2.3 Interior of Riddle’s Court, from the entrance on the south side of
Lawn Market, Edinburgh, opposite Gladstone’s Land 25
2.4 Gladstone’s Land on north side of Lawn Market, Edinburgh 28
2.5 “The Quack” by an unknown painter c. 1619–1625 30
2.6 “Men and two dogs in a bookshop” by Dirck de Bray 1607– 1678 31
3.1 Gabriel de Saint- Aubin, Vue du Salon en l’année 1753, National
Gallery of Art, Washington 40
3.2 Gabriel de Saint- Aubin, Detail of Vue du Salon en l’année 1753 45
4.1 Pierre Lepautre (1660– 1744), Représentation de la statue de Sa
Majesté eslevée dans la Place de Louis- le Grand le 13 Aoust 1699 58
4.2 Nicholas Langlois (French, 1640– 1703), The Salon of 1699, 1700 60
4.3 Liste des tableaux et des ouvrages de sculpture exposés dans la
grande galerie du Louvre par MM 62
6.1 Hôtel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde (formerly Place Louis XV),
c. 1920 89
6.2 Plan du Premier Etage du Gardemeuble du Roy à Construire à la Place
Louis XV (annotated by author), Ange- Jacques Gabriel, c. 1768 97
6.3 Elevation of the Galerie des Grands Meubles at the Garde- Meuble,
Jean- Démosthène Dugourc, c. 1778 98
6.4 Elevation of the Galerie des Antiques at the Garde- Meuble,
Jean- Démosthène Dugourc, c. 1778 99
6.5 Nicolas Chevalier after René Charpentier, La Galerie de Girardon,
18th century 100
7.1 Spoon and case, 15th c., the Low Countries 117
7.2 Pendant Triptych, c. 1460– 1500, France (Paris or Tours) 119
7.3 Spice container, c. 1550, repairs and additions 1650/ 51, Frankfurt am
Main (?) Germany 120
8.1 Juan de Valdés Leal, The Triumph (“El Triunfo”), 1671 134
8.2 Juan de Valdés Leal, Main Doorway of the Church Leading to the
Steps, Facing the Triumph (“Puerta principal, que sale a gradas, en
frente del Triunfo”), 1672 136
8.3 Matías de Arteaga, Seville Cathedral, West Front (“Occidens”), 1672 140
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9.1 Israël Silvestre, Place de la Colonne Antoniane du Cours a Rome,
1643– 1644 155
9.2 Giovanni Battista Falda, Piazza Colonna su la via del Corso spianata
et ampliata da N. Sig. Papa Alessandro VII, 1665 156
9.3 Giovanni Ottaviani, Prospetto della facciata del palazzo
d’abbitazione in Roma à Piazza Colonna del emo, e rmo sig.r card.
D. Francesco de Solís, arciv.o di Siviglia fatta illuminare il di
10. 11. 12. Agosto 1769, 1769 158
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Contributors
Pamela Bianchi (PhD, University of Paris 8) – Contributor and Editor
Art Historian and Professor in History of Art at the ESAD of Toulon
Carmen González- Román (University of Málaga)
Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of Malaga
Barbara Lasic (Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London)
Lecturer at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Antonia Laurence Allen (National Trust for Scotland)
Regional Curator for Edinburgh and East Scotland and has been with the National
Trust for Scotland over seven years
Hilary Macartney (University of Glasgow)
Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, where she directs the Stirling
Maxwell Research Project
Hila Manor (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
PhD student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow in the Outstanding
Doctoral Students Program of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for
Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Ginevra Odone (Université de Lorraine, La Sapienza Università di Roma)
Lecturer in Art History at the University of Marseille
Mandy Paige- Lovingood (North Carolina State University)
PhD student at North Carolina State University specializing in 18th-c entury exhib-
ition practices and the cross-c ultural connections between France and the
Ottoman Empire
Isabelle Pichet (Université du Québec à Trois- Rivières – UQTR)
Associate Professor at the Université du Québec à Trois- Rivières (UQTR)