Re-thinking Renaissance Objects: Design, Function and Meaning

Introduction
Peta Motture and Michelle O’Malley 1

1 Finding fame: painting and the making of careers in Renaissance Italy
Michelle O’Malley 9

2 Set in stone: monumental altar frames in Renaissance Florence
  Meghan Callahan & Donal Cooper 33

3 Veit Stoss and the origins of collecting of small-scale sculpture before 1500
Norbert Jopek 56

4 New light on a Venetian lantern at the V&A
Nick Humphrey & Martino Ferrari Bravo 71

5 Rethinking the Petrucci Pavement
Elizabeth Miller & Alun Graves 94

6 Dancing, love and the ‘beautiful game’: a new interpretation of a group of fi fteenth-century ‘gaming’ boxes
Paula Nuttall 119

7 Sharing and status: the design and function of a sixteenth-century Spanish spice stand in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Kirstin Kennedy 142

8 Scattered knives and dismembered song: cutlery, music and the rituals of dining
Flora Dennis 156

Bibliography 185

Index 212