Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture
- 1 Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo’s Non-finito
- 2 The Sacrilege of Soot: Liturgical Decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto
- 3 Sedimentary Aesthetics
- 4 ‘Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery’ : Purity and Contamination in Clement VII’s Emergency Currency
- 5 Tapestry as Tainted Medium: Charles V’s Conquest of Tunis
- 6 Bruegel’s Dirty Little Atoms
- 7 Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice
- 8 Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes
- 9 Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamations, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas
- 10 Contamination | Purification
- Index
List of Illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 May 2021
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction: Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture
- 1 Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo’s Non-finito
- 2 The Sacrilege of Soot: Liturgical Decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto
- 3 Sedimentary Aesthetics
- 4 ‘Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery’ : Purity and Contamination in Clement VII’s Emergency Currency
- 5 Tapestry as Tainted Medium: Charles V’s Conquest of Tunis
- 6 Bruegel’s Dirty Little Atoms
- 7 Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice
- 8 Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes
- 9 Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamations, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas
- 10 Contamination | Purification
- Index
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