Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy

Karen Hope Goodchild is Chapman Professor and Chair of Art History at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She has recently published articles on landscape theory, Giorgio Vasari, Piero di Cosimo, and Agnolo Bronzino, and her research has appeared in scholarly journals including Artibus et Historiae and Source, as well as in the Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari (2016). Her current work intersects with landscape and art theory, artist biography, literature, and gender. April Oettinger is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. Her recent publications, which have appeared in scholarly journals including Artibus et Historiae, The Journal of Word and Image, and Source, treat topics including the art of 16th-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto and the 1499 edition of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Her current book project is titled, Animating Nature. Lorenzo Lotto and the Sublime Turn in 16th-Century Venetian Landscape Art, 1500-1550. Leopoldine Prosperetti is the author of Landscape and Philosophy in the Art of Jan Brueghel (Ashgate, 2009) as well as a number of scholarly articles. In 2002-03 she was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and has since taught at Goucher College and Towson University in Maryland. In fall 2016 she took up a position as Instructional Professor in the History of Art at the School of Art at the University of Houston. She is in the final stages of a book entitled Sylvan Moments: Woodland Imagery in European Art, a collection of essays on the poetics of woodlands in European art.

• List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction A Fresh Vision of the Natural World in Renaissance Italy Karen Goodchild, April Oettinger, Leopoldine Prosperetti Part I. Devotional Viridescence The Green Spaces of Fra Filippo Lippi and Sandro Botticelli Rebekah Compton Anthropomorphic Trees and Animated Nature in Lorenzo Lotto's 1509 St. Jerome April Oettinger, 'Honesta voluptas': the Renaissance Justification for Enjoyment of the Natural World Paul Holberton, Part II. Building Green The Sala delle Asse as Locus Amoenus: Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci's Arboreal Imagery in Milan's Castello Sforzesco Jill Pederson Naturalism and Antiquity, Redefined, in Vasari's Verzure Karen Goodchild Verdant Architecture and Tripartite Chorography: Toeput and the Italian villa Tradition Natsumi Nonaka Part III. The Sylvan Exchange Titian: Sylvan Poet Leopoldine Prosperetti From Venice to Tivoli: Girolamo Muziano and the 'Invention' of the Tiburtine Landscape Patrizia Tosini Of Oak and Elder, Cloud-like Angels, and a Bird's Nest. The Graphic Interpretations of Titian's The Death of St. Peter Martyr by Martino Rota, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Valentin Lefebre, John Baptist Jackson, and Their Successors Sabine Peinelt-Schmidt The Verdant as Violence: The Storm Landscapes of Herman van Swanevelt and Gaspard Dughet Susan Russell Afterword A Brief Journey Through the Green World of Renaissance Venice Paul Barolsky