TY - BOOK ID - 86146441 TI - The art collector in early modern Italy : Andrea Odoni and his Venetian palace PY - 2021 SN - 1108933319 1108935192 1108934439 1108844081 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Art KW - Art and society KW - Collectors and collecting KW - History KW - Odoni, Andrea, KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Aesthetics KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86146441 AB - Lorenzo Lotto's Portrait of Andrea Odoni is one of the most famous paintings of the Italian Renaissance. Son of an immigrant and a member of the non-noble citizen class, Odoni understood how the power of art could make a name for himself and his family in his adopted homeland. Far from emulating Venetian patricians, however, he set himself apart through the works he collected and the way he displayed them. In this book, Monika Schmitter imaginatively reconstructs Odoni's house - essentially a 'portrait' of Odoni through his surroundings and possessions. Schmitter's detailed analysis of Odoni's life and portrait reveals how sixteenth-century individuals drew on contemporary ideas about spirituality, history, and science to forge their own theories about the power of things and the agency of object. She shows how Lotto's painting served as a meta-commentary on the practice of collecting and on the ability of material things to transform the self. ER -