Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750

Susanna Burghartz is Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern History at the University of Basel. Lucas Burkart is Professor of Medieval and Renaissance History at the University of Basel. Christine Göttler, Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Bern, specializes in the art of early modern Europe. She has published widely on collecting practices, the interactions between various arts and crafts, the alchemy of color, and the changing relations between art and nature and between natural philosophical and religious traditions. Her current book project explores Peter Paul Rubens’s engagement with the global world of seventeenth-century Antwerp. Ulinka Rublack teaches early modern history at Cambridge University. She is a fellow of the British Academy and has received two German life-time achievement awards for her research.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Materializing Identities: The Affective Values of Matter in Early Modern Europe - Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart, Christine Gottler, and Ulinka Rublack Part 1 Glass 1. Negotiating the Pleasure of Glass : Production, Consumption, and Affective Regimes in Renaissance Venice - Lucas Burkart 2. Shaping Identity through Glass in Renaissance Venice - Rachele Scuro Part 2 Feathers 3. Making Featherwork in Early Modern Europe - Stefan Hans 4. Performing America: Featherwork and Affective Politics - Ulinka Rublack Part 3 Gold Paint 5. Yellow, Vermilion, and Gold: Colour in Karel van Mander’s Schilder-Boeck - Christine Gottler 6. Shimmering Virtue: Joris Hoefnagel and the Uses of Shell Gold in the Early Modern Period - Michele Seehafer Part 4 Veils 7. “Fashioned with Marvellous Skill”: Veils and the Costume Books of Sixteenth-Century Europe - Katherine Bond 8. Moral Materials: Veiling in Early Modern Protestant Cities. The Cases of Basel and Zurich - Susanna Burghartz Index