Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture

Lauren Jacobi is the Clarence H. Blackall Career Development Associate Professor of Architectural History in the History, Theory + Criticism section of the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Daniel M. Zolli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at The Pennsylvania State University. He is a specialist in late medieval and early modern European art, with a particular focus on fourteenth-, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy.

Introduction / Lauren Jacobi and Daniel M. Zolli
1. Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo's Non-finito / Carolina Mangone
2. The Sacrilege of Soot: Liturgical Decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto / Grace Harpster
3. Sedimentary Aesthetics / Christopher Nygren
4. 'Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery': Purity and Contamination in Clement VII's Emergency Currency' / Allison Stielau
5. Tapestry as Tainted Medium: Charles V's Conquest of Tunis / Sylvia Houghteling
6. Bruegel's Dirty, Little Atoms / Amy Knight Powell
7. Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice / Lisa Pon
8. Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes / Lauren Jacobi
9. Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamation, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas / Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn
10. Contamination | Purification / Caroline A. Jones and Joseph Leo Koerner
Index