Giants and Dwarfs in European Art and Culture, ca. 1350-1750

Robin O’Bryan (PhD) is an Art Historian focusing on issues related to popular culture in Italian Renaissance art, especially dwarfs. Her published articles have appeared in journals and anthologies including Games and Game Playing in Early Modern Art and Literature which she also edited for Amsterdam University Press. Felicia M. Else is Professor of Art History at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. She has published on art, water, cartography, natural history, and festivals in 16th-century Florence and is the author of The Politics of Water in the Art and Festivals of Medici Florence: From Neptune Fountain to Naumachia.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Giants and Dwarfs as Real, Imagined, and Metaphorical Entities - Robin O’Bryan PART I NORTHERN CLIMES 1. Out of Scale: Naming and Identity of Late Medieval Giants - Assaf Pinkus 2. St. Christopher the Giant: Imagining the Sublime in Fifteenth-Century South Tyrol - Michal Ozeri 3. Giants as Primordial Ancestors in Sixteenth-Century Art and Poetry - Andrea Bubenik 4. A Champion “large of portratour”: Robert the Bruce as “Giant” in Anti-Tudor Propaganda - Giovanna Guidicini 5. Giants and Dwarfs in the Tyrolean Courts: Documents, Portraits, and the Kunst- und Wunderkammer at Schloss Ambras - Hansjörg Rabanser 6. A Model Christian and “Child of God”: A German Court Dwarf and His Funeral Sermon - Eva Seemann PART II SPAIN AND ITALY 7. Ordinary Marvels: The Case of Dwarf Attendants in Habsburg Spain - Janet Ravenscroft 8. A Ducal Dwarf, Military Prowess, and a Portrait in the Farnese Dynastic Collection - Robin O’Bryan 9. “Per mano della Maria Nana”: A Female Dwarf in the Retinue of Eleonora di Toledo - Sarah McBryde 10. Dwarfs and Giants in Early Modern Caricature -Sandra Cheng 11. “Biancone”: Giants, Dwarfs, and the Rise of a Popular Nickname - Felicia Else Index