Research Catalog

Title

Prayer nuts, private devotion, and early modern art collecting / edited by Evelin Wetter and Frits Scholten ; with contributions by Lisa Ellis [and eight others].

Author

Prayer nuts, private devotion, and early modern art collecting (Colloquium) (2012: Abegg-Stiftung), author.

Publication

Riggisberg : Abegg-Stiftung, 2017.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wetter, Evelin, 1969-
• Scholten, Frits
• Ellis, Lisa
• Abegg-Stiftung, issuing body.

Description

233 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 32 cm

Summary

"The authors present prayer-nuts and small-scale boxwood carvings of different collections and highlight their function as private devotional objects and collector's items. They discuss prints used as models for Late Gothic and Early Renaissance miniature carvings and sculptures and present new material about the historical perception of such objects. This book contains the papers of a colloquium organised by the Abegg-Stiftung in 2012, with contributions by R. Falkenburg, E.M. Kavaler, J.C. Smith, I. Veldman et al'--

Series Statement

Riggisberger Berichte ; 22

Uniform Title

Riggisberger Berichte ; 22.

Subjects

• Devotional objects > Europe > Congresses
• Beads > Religious aspects > Congresses
• Devotional objects > Collectors and collecting > Congresses
• Wood-carving > Congresses
• Devotional objects > Catholic Church > Congresses

Note

• International conference proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231).

Contents

Foreword / Evelin Wetter -- Prayer nuts: feasting the 'eyes of the heart' / Reindert Falkenburg -- Small-scale boxwood carvings as instruments of devotional practice and collectors' item: pictorial sources, material findings, and archival evidence / Evelin Wetter -- Joost van Cranevelt's description of the Riggisberg Magdalen prayer nut (1633) / Frits Scholten -- Plates -- English translation of a manuscript in the Library of the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap (Royal Antiquarian Society) in Amsterdam (inv. no. KOG Hs 55), dated 1633 / Beschrijvonge Van Een Constigen Appel [...] -- "The worldly life of Mary Magdalen," Lucas van Leyden's print, the Riggisberg prayer nut and their pictorial tradition / Ilja M. Veldman -- The early collecting of Dü rer's prints / Jeffrey Chipps Smith -- The donors of the Louvre Boxwood Miniature Altar identified / Ingmar Reesing -- Prayer nuts and early modern sculpture in the Netherlands / Ethan Matt Kavaler -- Sixteenth-Century micro-carving and exceptions to the norm: three case studies / Alexandra Suda -- The virtual deconstruction of a prayer bead in the Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario with Micro-CT scanning and advanced 3D Analysis software / Lisa Ellis et. al.

Call Number

JQG 17-960

ISBN

• 9783905014648
• 3905014645

LCCN

9783905014648

OCLC

988251740

Conference

Prayer nuts, private devotion, and early modern art collecting (Colloquium) (2012: Abegg-Stiftung), author.

Title

Prayer nuts, private devotion, and early modern art collecting / edited by Evelin Wetter and Frits Scholten ; with contributions by Lisa Ellis [and eight others].

Publisher

Riggisberg : Abegg-Stiftung, 2017.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Riggisberger Berichte ; 22

Riggisberger Berichte ; 22.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231).

Added Author

Wetter, Evelin, 1969- editor.

Scholten, Frits, editor.

Ellis, Lisa, contributor.

Abegg-Stiftung, issuing body.

Other Standard Identifier

9783905014648

Research Call Number

JQG 17-960