Ranums' Panat Times

Footnotes to "The Exotic and the Erotic"

1. See the general discussion of the painting by Francesco Valcanover in the Exhibition catalogue, Venice and Washington, 1990, p. 267.

2. "Intimacy in Eighteenth-Century Portraits," Word and Image, 6, 1990, pp. 351-367.

3. The standard works are F. Lehoux, Le Cadre de Vie des Médicins Parisiens aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles (Paris, Picard, 1976); Annik Pardailhé-Galabrun, La Naissance de I'intime; 3000 foyers parisiens, XVII^e-XVIII^e siècles (Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1988); and C. Sargantson, Merchants and Luxury Markets... (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995).

4. An engaging way of presenting this interpretation is by Lisa Jardine, Worldly Goods (London, Macmillan, 1996) Chap. 8.

5. Richard Goldthwaite's findings about the very high consumption of religious art is an important beginning, in Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy, 1300-1600 (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993) pp. 129-148 and passim. See also Creighton E. Gilbert "What did the Renaissance Patron Buy?," Renaissance Quarterly, 60, summer 1998, pp. 392-350; and Ruth Mellinkoff, "Titian's Pastoral Scene: a Unique Rendition of Lot and his Daughters," Renaissance Quarterly, 51, 1998, pp. 829-886, a thoughtful and convincing piece of art-historical detective work. For a recent English study, Elizabeth Kowalski-Wallace, Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping and Business in the Eighteenth Century (New York, Columbia University Press, 1996).

6. I know of no general study of jewelry in Early Modern painting, but see Elise Goodman-Soellner "Poetic Interpretations of the 'Lady at her toilette'," Sixteenth-Century Journal, 14, 1983, pp. 426-442.

7. Elise Goodman-Soellner, "Le Miroir Ardent...," Simiolus Netherlands Quarterly for the history of Art, 13, 1983, pp. 218-224.

8. Exhibition catalogue, François Clouet (Paris, B.N., 1970), plate 31. The Duke of Buckingham had what is called an "espèce d'autel portrait d'Anne d'Autriche, Richelieu, Correspondance, ed. by P. Grillon, (Paris, Pédone, 1977) II, p. 506. He had lighted candles around it.

9. See Henri Zerner, "La Dame au Bain" in Le Corps à la Renaissance, ed. by Jean Céard, Marie-Madeleine Fontaine, and Jean-Claude Margolin (Actes du XXX^e Colloque de Tours, 1987, pp. 95-111. The decorations of Francis's bath were largely mythological scenes, Zerner, p. 109.

10. See the exhibition catalogue of La Peinture française de XVII^e siècle dans les Collections américaines (Paris, Ministère de la Culture, 1982), p.148 and 271.

11. Le Monde des Financiers au XVII^e siècle (Paris, Flammarion, 1988) and Argent, pouvoir et société au Grand Siècle (Paris, Fayard, 1984); there is nothing so comprehensive for the sixteenth century.

12. La Culture des Apparences: une histoire du vêtement au XVIII^e siècle (Paris, Fayard, 1989), pp. 94-117.

13. Robert Descimon, "L'homme qui signa l'Edit de Nantes: Pierre Forget de Fresnes (18 avril, 1610). Éléments de biographe," Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de Protestantisme français 144, 1998, pp. 161-174.

14. Les Peintures... dans les Collections américaines, pp. 318-319.

15. Exhibition catalogue, L'il d'or: Claude Mellan (Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, 1998), plate 13.

16. Sabine de Crest, "L'Hôtel Lambert," in L'Ile Saint Louis, ed. by Béatrice de Andia and Nicolas Cochin

17. La Naissance de I'Intime, pp. 355-365 (Paris, Paris et son Patrimoine, 1997), p. 214.

18. Pardailhé-Galabrun, p. 358. Another has glazed tiles.

19. Peter Thornton, Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France and Holland, (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978), pp. 172-175.

20. Engraven Desire (Durham, Duke University Press, 1991) p. 136.

21. Stevens, p. 137.

22. Stevens, p. 162; and Roche, chap. 6.

23. Stevens, p. 197. In one of the illustrations for La Fontaine's Fables, Eisen/de Longueil, have a little dog playfully shake a bag of coins, an eighteenth century way of saying what Titian suggested about Danäe's courtisane status. Stewart, p. 226. See also Alain Montandon, "Civilitiés érotiques" in Civilitiés extrêmes, ed. by Alain Montandon (Clermont Ferrand, Faculté des Letters Blaise Pascal, 1997) pp. 115-129.