Table of Contents

PART 1. Introduction

1. Reason for a Research

Pamela Bianchi

PART 2. Public Spaces

2. Trading Spaces: the display practices of an early modern auction in Edinburgh

Antonia Laurence-Allen

3. The Discourse of the Salon

Isabelle Piquet

4. Royal Spectacles & Social Networks: Early 18th-Century Salon Exhibition Practices

Mandy Paige-Lovingood

PART 3. Domestic Spaces

5. Exhibition Design, Display Strategies, and Aesthetic Promenades to the Court of Gonzaga

Pamela Bianchi

6. ‘A Treasure of Riches and Curiosities’ Politics of Display at the Garde-meuble de la Couronne, 1680-1789

Barbara Lasic

7. The Display of Metalwork in North European Domestic Spaces in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries

Hila Manor

PART 4. Religious and Political Spaces

8. Displaying Art in a Sacred Space: The Artworks for the Triunfo of St. Ferdinand in Seville Cathedral (1671)

Carmen González-Román

9. The Ephemeral Façade of Cardinal de Solis’s Palace: Aesthetics and Politics in 18th Century Rome

Ginevra Odone

About the Author

Pamela Bianchi is an art historian and a professor in history of art and design at the ESAD in Toulon. Since 2013, Pamela has been an affi liated researcher of the lab AI- AC at the Paris 8 University.