Visualizing the Past in Italian Renaissance Art

Jennifer Cochran Anderson, Ph.D. (2012, Pennsylvania State University) is an independent art historian working in Austin, Texas. She is currently preparing a book project on the historical “afterlives” of Ireland’s wooden devotional sculptures dating to the Lordship (1177–1542) and Suppression (1535–1800) eras. Douglas N. Dow, Ph.D. (2006, Pennsylvania State University) is Associate Professor of Art History at Kansas State University. He is the author of Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform (2014); his next book examines Bernardino Poccetti’s religious paintings.

• Preface and AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Brian Curran, Past, Present, PlaceDouglas N. Dow and Jennifer Cochran AndersonPublications by Brian A. Curran1 Horrors and Heroes, Renaissance and Recent: Rome as Architecture SchoolDenise R. Costanzo2 Michelangelo’s ColumnsWilliam E. Wallace3 Allegory, Antiquities, and a Gothic Apollo: Queen Christina of Sweden and the Manufacture of Cultural IdentityTheresa A. Kutasz Christensen4 The Atlantic Visions of Giorgio Grognet de Vassé (1774–1862), Maltese Forger, Architect, and AntiquarianIngrid Rowland5 Drawing the Elephant: On the Natures of Naturalism before and in the CinquecentoAnthony Cutler6 A Faun in Love: The Visual SourcesMarilyn Aronberg Lavin7 Marco del Buono Giamberti’s 1478 Testament and New Evidence about Paolo UccelloLouis Alexander Waldman8 The Architecture of Civic Virtue in Donatello’s Saint George and the DragonElizabeth Petersen Cyron9 American Bodies, Aztec Feathers, and Artistic Invention in Sixteenth-Century EuropeStuart Lingo10 Cafà’s Saint Rose of Lima as EffigyJessica M. Boehman11 Gardens, Air, and the Healing Power of Green in Early Modern RomeKatherine M. Bentz12 The Guglie of Naples and the Visual Rhetoric of HeightRobin L. Thomas13 Nicola Michetti’s Facade of the Palazzo Colonna in Rome (1731–1735)John PintoTabula in MemoriamCraig ZabelIndex