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Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century
Strategic Reinterpretations
Av Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
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Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality. …
Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond
From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis
Häftad, 2025
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An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the North American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom's colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from …
Architecture, Opportunity, and Conflict in Eighteenth-Century Sicily
Rebuilding after Natural Disaster
Av Martin Nixon
Häftad, 2025
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The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west. The rebuilding extended into the eighteenth century and gave opportunities for the reassertion and the transformation of power relations. Although eight of the towns are now protected by …
Art and Its Geographies
Configuring Schools of Art in Europe (1550-1815)
Häftad, 2025
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Schools of art represent one of the building blocks of art history. The notion of a school of art emerged in artistic discourse and disseminated across various countries in Europe during the early modern period. Whilst a school of art essentially denotes a group of artists or artworks, it came to …
Art, Trade, and Imperialism in Early Modern French India
Av Liza Oliver
Häftad, 2025
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French mercantile endeavors in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century India were marked by novel intersections of aesthetics, science, and often violent commercialism. Connecting all of these worlds were the thriving textile industries of India's Coromandel Coast. This book focuses on the …
Artisans, Objects and Everyday Life in Renaissance Italy
The Material Culture of the Middling Class
Häftad, 2025
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Did ordinary Italians have a ‘Renaissance’? This book presents the first in-depth exploration of how artisans and small local traders experienced the material and cultural Renaissance. Drawing on a rich blend of sixteenth-century visual and archival evidence, it examines how individuals and …
Bernardino Poccetti and the Art of Religious Painting at the End of the Florentine Renaissance
Av Douglas Dow
Häftad, 2025
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By almost any measure Bernardino Barbatelli, called Poccetti, was a successful and sought after painter in late sixteenth-century Florence, but his works have remained largely overlooked. This study situates representative examples of his religious painting within their respective contexts to …
Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining
Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2026
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Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite …
Comfortable Everyday Life at the Swedish Eighteenth-Century Näs Manor
Häftad, 2025
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During the eighteenth century, comfortable everyday life becomes a new ideal. The good life was no longer about grand representation or the manifestation of material opulence. The new luxury was instead the comfortably arranged life at home. This book is about the traces of this change, its …
Contamination and Purity in Early Modern Art and Architecture
Av Lauren Jacobi, Daniel Zolli
Häftad, 2025
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The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the …
Creating Distinctions in Dutch Genre Painting
Repetition and Invention
Av Angela Ho
Häftad, 2025
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In the mid- to late seventeenth century, a number of Dutch painters created a new type of refined genre painting that was much admired by elite collectors. In this book, Angela Ho uses the examples of Gerrit Dou, Gerard ter Borch, and Frans van Mieris to show how this group of artists made creative …
Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture
Häftad, 2025
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The importance of place – as a unique spatial identity – has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the 'genius loci', or spirit of place, evoked not only the location of a distinct atmosphere or environment, but also the protection of this location, and implicitly, its making and …
Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art
Av Michael Hill, Jennifer Milam
Häftad, 2026
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Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics. In these times of heightened anxieties, images of saints and protectors served to reassure the faithful of their religious protection against …
Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de'Specchi, 1400-1500
Religious Women and Art in 15th-century Rome
Häftad, 2025
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In the fifteenth century, the Oblates of Santa Francesca Romana, a fledgling community of religious women in Rome, commissioned an impressive array of artwork for their newly acquired living quarters, the Tor de'Specchi. The imagery focused overwhelmingly on the sensual, corporeal nature of …
Early Modern Spaces in Motion
Design, Experience and Rhetoric
Häftad, 2025
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Stretching back to antiquity, motion had been a key means of designing and describing the physical environment. But during the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, individuals across Europe increasingly designed, experienced, and described a new world of motion: one characterized by continuous, …
Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe
Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture
Av Sarah A. Bendall, Serena Dyer
Häftad, 2026
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Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied. Whether making pottery, food, or textiles, the processes of manual production rested on an intersensory connection between mind, body, and object. This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, …
Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens
Häftad, 2025
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Figuring Faith and Female Power in the Art of Rubens argues that the Baroque painter, propagandist, and diplomat, Peter Paul Rubens, was not only aware of rapidly shifting religious and cultural attitudes toward women, but actively engaged in shaping them. Today, Rubens's paintings continue to be …
Flagellant Confraternities and Italian Art, 1260-1610
Ritual and Experience
Av Andrew Chen
Häftad, 2025
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This book examines the art and ritual of flagellant confraternities in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Meeting regularly to beat themselves with whips, members of these confraternities concentrated on the suffering of Christ in the most extreme and committed way, and the …
Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court
Performance and Practice at the Palazzo Te
Av Maria Maurer
Häftad, 2025
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Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack …
Godefridus Schalcken
A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London
Häftad, 2025
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In his own day, Godefridus Schalcken (1643—1706) was an internationally renowned Dutch painter, but little is known about the four years that he spent in London. Using newly discovered documents, this book provides the first comprehensive examination of Schalcken’s activities there. The author …
Green Worlds in Early Modern Italy
Art and the Verdant Earth
Av Karen Hope Goodchild, April Oettinger m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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The green mantle of the earth! This metaphor is a poetic image that borrows from the vocabulary of weaving and epitomizes the Renaissance interest in fashioning green worlds in art and poetry. Here it serves as a motto for a cultural poetics that made representing living nature increasingly popular …
Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe
Regular, Repellant, and Redemptive Death
Av Sarah Schell
Häftad, 2025
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Image and the Office of the Dead in Late Medieval Europe explores the Office of the Dead as a site of interaction between text, image, and experience in the culture of commemoration that thrived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Office of the Dead was a familiar liturgical ritual, and …
In-Between Textiles, 1400-1800
Weaving Subjectivities and Encounters
Av Beatriz Marín-Aguilera, Stefan Hanß
Häftad, 2025
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In-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped, disrupted, and transformed subjectivities in the age of the first globalisation. The volume presents a radically cross-disciplinary approach that brings together world-leading anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, …
Indecent Bodies in Early Modern Visual Culture
Av Fabian Jonietz, Mandy Richter m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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The life-like depiction of the body became a central interest and defining characteristic of the European Early Modern period that coincided with the establishment of which images of the body were to be considered ‘decent’ and representable, and which disapproved, censored, or prohibited. …
Jacob van Ruisdael’s Ecological Landscapes
Häftad, 2025
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This book examines Jacob van Ruisdael's treatment of five subjects—dunes, grainfields, ruins, rushing water, and woodlands—that recur throughout his career. The paintings, though fictive, show close attention to the complexities of particular environments that can be fruitfully considered …
Landscape and Earth in Early Modernity
Picturing Unruly Nature
Av Christine Göttler, Mia Mochizuki
Häftad, 2025
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Early modern views of nature and the earth upended the depiction of land. Landscape emerged as a site of artistic exploration at a time when environments and ecologies were reshaped and transformed. This volume historicizes the contingency of an ever-changing elemental world, reframing and …
Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy
Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture
Häftad, 2025
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Landscape and the Arts in Early Modern Italy: Theatre, Gardens and Visual Culture argues that theatre, and the new genre of opera in particular, played a key role in creating a new vision of landscape during the long seventeenth century in Italy. It explores how the idea of gardens as theatres …
Materialized Identities in Early Modern Culture, 1450-1750
Objects, Affects, Effects
Av Susanna Burghartz, Lucas Burkart m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
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This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive …
Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750
Av Natasha Seaman, Joanna Woodall
Häftad, 2025
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Money Matters in European Artworks and Literature, c. 1400-1750 focuses on coins as material artefacts and agents of meaning in early modern arts. The precious metals, double-sided form, and emblematic character of coins had deep resonance in European culture and cultural encounters. Coins embodied …
Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century
Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of Power
Häftad, 2025
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This book investigates the aesthetic and conceptual characteristics of fifteenth-century female portraiture on panel. Portraits of women increased substantially during this century. They formed part of a material and a visual culture borne out of the rapid rise of an oligarchy from entrepreneurial …
