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Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy

The Art of Play

AvKelli Wood

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This book offers a cultural, visual, and material history of games in Renaissance Italy. Games in the Renaissance offered an inventive and imaginative understanding of the world for their players, one founded not only on iterative performances but also through a visual and material culture imbricated in early modern Italy’s ideologically inflected artistic, scientific, and social systems.As this book demonstrates, the materia of play took part in shaping the imaginary of the Cinquecento and its roots in the Quattrocento within a network of interwoven courts, intellectual circles, and civic centers situated on the Italian peninsula. For makers, players, viewers, and patrons, for lords, professional athletes, and gambling workmen, the visual culture of games – the art of play – stood at the very center of the world we have long known as the Renaissance.Games and Sports in Renaissance Italy above all focuses on how the material and visual cultures of games shaped their performance and practice and, crucially, our knowledge of the past. The structure of this book echoes infamous gambler and polymath Cardano’s categorization of games as Games of Wit (including both skill and mixed skill and chance), Games of Fortune (including both chance and Terence’s fate), and Games of Vigor (including athletics of agility and strength). This book will resonate with scholars and students of Renaissance studies, art history, and cultural history, offering fresh perspectives on the material and visual cultures of games.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-08-07
Mått:174 x 246 x undefined mm
Vikt:720 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cultures of Play
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Amsterdam University Press
ISBN:9789463723749

Utforska kategorier

Konsthistoria inom Kultur
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Kelli Wood is the Dale G. Cleaver Assistant Professor of Art History – Museum and Curatorial Studies at the University of Tennessee. Her work on the visual and material culture of sports and games has appeared in edited volumes and peer-reviewed journals such as Art History and Renaissance Studies.

Innehållsförteckning

1 What Were Renaissance Games? Game Theories in the Renaissance Recovering Renaissance Play Structuring the Art of Play 2 Games of Wit The Materials of Play Moves and Maneuvers Embedded Meanings Self-Fashioning Games, Pictures, and Wit 3 Games of Fortune Cards at Play Fortune at Play The (Board) Game of Life Pay to Play: Labor and Liberalità 4 Games of Vigor The Athletic Arts between Antique Imagination and Renaissance Practice Alfonso II and the Princely Athlete Sport and Spectacle in Medici Florence

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