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Mysterium Magnum: Michelangelo's Tondo Doni
Inbunden, 2008
2620 kr
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This study presents the Tondo Doni to the new Florentine republic as a model of the 'great sacrament' of marriage from the New Testament book of Ephesians. Following fifteenth-century theology, Michelangelo portrayed Mary as a humble wife dominated and possessed by a virile guardian Joseph, the …
Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art
Av Simona Cohen
Inbunden, 2008
2620 kr
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The relationship between medieval animal symbolism and the iconography of animals in the Renaissance has scarcely been studied. Filling a gap in this significant field of Renaissance culture, in general, and its art, in particular, this book demonstrates the continuity and tenacity of medieval …
Body Within
Art, Medicine and Visualization
Inbunden, 2009
2620 kr
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The central question of this volume is, whether present day medical visualisation techniques like ultrasound, endoscopy, CT, MRI and PET-scans mark a significant shift in the experience of bodily interiority. These visualisation techniques enable not only medical researchers and practitioners to …
Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400–1600)
Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation
Inbunden, 2022
2660 kr
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Winner of the 2026 Borghese PrizeIn Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400–1600), Jan L. de Jong reveals how funerary monuments, far from simply marking a grave, offered an image of the deceased that was carefully crafted to generate a laudable memory and prompt meditative reflections on life, death, and …
Animals in Eden
The Fall of Man in the Early Modern Art and Literature of Germany and the Low Countries
Inbunden, 2025
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This book looks at early modern representations, both pictorial and literary, of the animals surrounding Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden at the dramatic moment of the Fall. Beginning with Albrecht Dürer's engraving Adam and Eve (1504) and ending with Rembrandt's etching Adam and Eve (1637), it …
Rethinking the Dialogue between the Verbal and the Visual
Methodological Approaches to the Relationship Between Religious Art and Literature (1400–1700)
Av Ingrid Falque, Agnès Guiderdoni
Inbunden, 2022
2380 kr
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Intermediality, figurability, iconotext, visual exegesis: these are some of the many new ways in which the relationship between text and image has been explored in recent decades. Scholars have benefited from theoretical work in the fields of anthropology, psychoanalysis, and semiotics, alongside …
Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris
Inbunden, 2022
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In Private Salons and the Art World of Enlightenment Paris, Rochelle Ziskin explores in depth two remarkable private gatherings generating significant art criticism during the middle of the eighteenth century. She demonstrates how the sites harboring them came to embody and disseminate their …
Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society
Inbunden, 2013
2616 kr
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In Cistercian Architecture and Medieval Society Maximilian Sternberg offers an account of the social functions of the built environment in medieval monasticism. Few medieval monuments hold so privileged a place in the modern imagination as Cistercian abbeys, yet Sternberg suggests, it is precisely …
Placing Prints: New Developments in the Study of Print, 1400–1800
Av Bryony Bartlett-Rawlings, Naomi Lebens
Inbunden, 2025
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This volume presents a broad spectrum of essays exemplifying current advances in print scholarship. It aims to focus attention on the medium of print. While the essays reflect the varied production and role of print, central themes explored here include the making of prints and their perceived …
Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art
Av Simona Cohen
Inbunden, 2014
3143 kr
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Although studies of specific time concepts, expressed in Renaissance philosophy and literature, have not been lacking, few art-historians have endeavored to meet the challenge in the visual arts. This book presents a multifaceted picture of the dynamic concepts of time and temporality in medieval …
Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century
Av Ronit Milano
Inbunden, 2015
2971 kr
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In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in …
Rubens and the Dominican Church in Antwerp
Art and Political Economy in an Age of Religious Conflict
Av Adam Sammut
Inbunden, 2023
3483 kr
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This book is about the Dominican church in Antwerp (today St Paul’s). It is structured around three works of art, made or procured by Peter Paul Rubens: the Fifteen Mysteries of the Rosary cycle (in situ), Caravaggio’s Rosary Madonna (Vienna) and the Wrath of Christ high altarpiece (Lyon). Within …
Der sokratische Künstler
Studien zu Rembrandts Nachtwache
Inbunden, 2015
3352 kr
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Im Fokus der Studie steht eine neue Deutung von Rembrandts Nachtwache aus dem Jahre 1642. Zentral ist dabei die Auseinandersetzung des Malers mit der klassizistischen Kunsttheorie von Franciscus Junius. Dessen Werk "De pictura veterum" war 1637 in lateinischer und 1641 in niederländischer Sprache …
Andrea Fulvio’s Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology
Inbunden, 2022
1880 kr
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Andrea Fulvio’s Illustrium imagines and the Beginnings of Classical Archaeology is a study of the book recognized by contemporaries as the first attempt (1517) to publish artifacts from Classical Antiquity in the form of a chronology of portraits appearing on coins. By studying correspondences …
Art and Diplomacy: Seventeenth-Century English Decorated Royal Letters to Russia and the Far East
Inbunden, 2015
3143 kr
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In this study of Art and Diplomacy we see the relationship between renaissance design in decorated borders and the messages conveyed in the texts of royal letters from the English kings to Russia and rulers in the Far East. These are cases of art serving the Crown, with much of the early limning …
Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance
Inbunden, 2015
4643 kr
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In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornament in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance, she examines the …
Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion
Inbunden, 2015
3050 kr
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Reading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians’, Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity and the media through which that knowledge was articulated and …
Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome, 1200-1500
Inbunden, 2015
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In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 – 1500, Carla Keyvanian offers a new interpretation of the urban development of Rome during three seminal centuries by focusing on the construction of public hospitals. These monumental charitable institutions were urban expressions of sovereignty. Keyvanian …
Exuberant Apotheoses: Italian Frescoes in the Holy Roman Empire
Visual Culture and Princely Power in the Age of Enlightenment
Av Daniel Fulco
Inbunden, 2016
3890 kr
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From the late seventeenth through the mid-eighteenth centuries, large-scale Italian frescoes soared in popularity as nobles in the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire constructed new palaces at an unprecedented rate. They competed with one another to produce lavish decorative schemes …
St. Jacob’s Antwerp Art and Counter Reformation in Rubens’s Parish Church
Inbunden, 2016
4123 kr
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Of more than forty churches that fortified Antwerp as the bulwark of the Counter Reformation in the Netherlands, only St. Jacob’s stands now with its art and archives intact. Parish church of the city’s elite, it is filled with masterpieces, including the altarpiece that Rubens painted for his own …
Michelangelo in the New Millennium
Conversations about Artistic Practice, Patronage and Christianity
Inbunden, 2016
2366 kr
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Michelangelo in the New Millennium presents six paired studies in dialogue with each other that offer new ways of looking at Michelangelo’s art as a series of social, creative, and emotional exchanges where artistic intention remains flexible; probe deeper into the artist’s formal borrowing and how …
Literature and Artistic Practice in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Inbunden, 2017
3700 kr
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In Literature and Artistic Practice in the Sixteenth Century Angela Cerasuolo, art historian and restorer, tracks the technical processes of painting through the cross-analysis of literary texts and works of art. Having traced the critical fortunes of the texts of the authors—Leonardo, Vasari, …
Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century
Inbunden, 2016
2244 kr
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Robin Raybould's The Sibyl Series of the Fifteenth Century examines the startling and sudden change that occurred in the representation of the sibyls throughout Europe during the early Renaissance. Raybould describes how and why during this period the number, names, attributes and prophecies of …
Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2017
3070 kr
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt's Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance tells the story of a hands-on genre of prints: how innovative paper engineering redefined the relationship of early modern viewers to art, humanism, and science.Interactive and sculptural prints pervaded the European …
Ornamental Nationalism
Archaeology and Antiquities in Mexico, 1876-1911
Inbunden, 2017
2257 kr
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In Ornamental Nationalism: Archaeology and Antiquities in Mexico, 1876-1911, Seonaid Valiant examines the Porfirian government’s reworking of indigenous, particularly Aztec, images to create national symbols. She focuses in particular on the career of Mexico's first national archaeologist, …
Primacy of the Image in Northern European Art, 1400–1700
Essays in Honor of Larry Silver
Av Debra Cashion, Henry Luttikhuizen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3721 kr
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The Primacy of the Image in Northern Art 1400-1700: Essays in Honor of Larry Silver is an anthology of 42 essays written by distinguished scholars on current research and methodology in the art history of Northern Europe of the late medieval and early modern periods. Written in tribute to Larry …
Empresses and Queens in the Courtly Public Sphere from the 17th to the 20th Century
Inbunden, 2021
2432 kr
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This book analyzes the evolving interaction between court and media from an understudied perspective. Eight case studies focus on different European Empress consorts and Queen regnants from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, using a comparative, cross-media, and cross-period approach. The …
Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610
Inbunden, 2018
3957 kr
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This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. …
Globalization of Renaissance Art
A Critical Review
Av Daniel Savoy
Inbunden, 2017
2593 kr
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In The Globalization of Renaissance Art: A Critical Review, Daniel Savoy assembles an interdisciplinary group of scholars to evaluate the global discourse on early modern European art. Over the course of eleven chapters and a roundtable, the contributors assess the discourses goal of transcending …
City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts
Depictions of Rhetoric and Rule in the Sixteenth Century
Inbunden, 2018
3680 kr
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In City Views in the Habsburg and Medici Courts, Ryan E. Gregg relates how Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke Cosimo I of Tuscany employed city view artists such as Anton van den Wyngaerde and Giovanni Stradano to aid in constructing authority. These artists produced a specific style of city …
