Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic

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In Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures, the interdisciplinary community of specialists around the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Early Modernity innovatively explores the diverse early modern world of objects

How did objects move between places and people, and how did they reshape the Republic's arts, cultures and sciences?, 'Objects' were vitally significant for the early modern Dutch Republic, which is known as an early consumer society, a place famous for its exhaustive production of books, visual arts and scientific instruments. What happens when we push these objects and their materiality to the centre of our research? How do they invite us to develop new perspectives on the early modern Dutch Republic? And how do they contest the boundaries of the academic disciplines that have traditionally organized our scholarship?, In Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures, the interdisciplinary community of specialists around the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of Early Modernity innovatively explores the diverse early modern world of objects. Its contributors take a single object or commodity as a point of departure to study and discuss various aspects of early modern art, culture and history: from natural objects to consumer goods, from knowledge instruments to artistic materials. The volume aims to unravel how objects have moved through regions, cultures and ages, and how objects impacted people who lived and worked in the Dutch Republic.

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Acknowledgements, Introduction: Objects, Commodities and Material Cultures in the Dutch Republic. Exploring Early Modern Materiality Across Disciplines, 2. The Anatomical Atlas: Govert Bidloo and Gerard de Lairesse's Anatomia Humani Corporis (1685), 3. The Bullet and the Printing Press: Objects Celebrating the Battle of Gibraltar (1607), 4. A Baluster: Amalia van Solms and the Global Trade in Japanese Lacquer, 5. The Graphometer and the Book: How Petronella Johanna de Timmerman (1723/1724-1786) Merged Science and Poetry, 6. Shells: Shaping Curiosity in the Dutch Republic, 7. The VOC Boardroom: A Forensic Investigation into the Built Environment, 8. The Muller: Insights into Practical Artistic Knowledge through Re-Making Experiments, 9. Blue Paper: Its Life, Origin, History and Artistic Exploration, List of illustrations with photo credits, Index