3. Sedimentary Aesthetics

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Introduction: Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture 17
5. 1. Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo’s Non-finito 63
6. 2. The Sacrilege of Soot : Liturgical Decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto 99
7. 3. Sedimentary Aesthetics 129
8. 4. ‘Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery’ : Purity and Contamination in Clement VII’s Emergency Currency 157
9. 5. Tapestry as Tainted Medium: Charles V’s Conquest of Tunis 183
10. 6. Bruegel’s Dirty Little Atoms 207
11. 7. Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice 243
12. 8. Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes 267
13. 9. Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamations, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas 283
14. 10. Contamination / Purification 315
15. Index 361