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Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance
After Trent
Häftad, 2020
699 kr
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Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders. Rather than considering this period a degraded afterword to Renaissance …
Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation
Equicola's Seasons of Desire
Inbunden, 2010
2896 kr
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Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini's and Titian's famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for the camerino of Duke Alfonso d'Este of Ferrara, and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - …
Caravaggio in Early Modern Sicily
Inbunden, 2026
2594 kr
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This is the first book in English dedicated to Caravaggio’s life and work in Sicily. It examines the four Sicilian altarpieces within the context of Sicily and in relation to his other paintings.This study sets the stage for Caravaggio’s arrival in Sicily by providing an overview of the cultural, …
Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and Raphael. After the death of Raphael and the departure of Michelangelo from Rome, Sebastiano became the dominant artistic personality in the city. …
Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo
Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life
Inbunden, 2022
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This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame—or second life—from their own times through the nineteenth century.These two artists inspired fervent followings like no other artists before them. The affective …
Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan
Inbunden, 2020
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The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561–1629), Carlo Antonio (1571–1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574–1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century. The Procaccinis' work is here analysed by …
Federico Barocci
Inspiration and Innovation in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2019
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Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 1533–1612), 'the greatest artist you’ve never heard of'. One of the first original iconographers of the Counter Reformation, Barocci was a remarkably inventive religious painter and draftsman, and the first Italian artist to incorporate …
Knowledge and Discernment in the Early Modern Arts
Av Sven Dupré, Christine Göttler
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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In early modern Europe, discernment emerged as a key notion at the intersection of various domains in both learned and artisanal cultures. Often used synonymously with judgment, ingenuity, and taste, discernment defined the ability to perceive and understand the secrets of nature and art, and …
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing
Häftad, 2019
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Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) in light of early modern traditions of eloquence, particularly as promoted in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Flemish, …
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society. The essays included in this volume consider merchants not only as important collectors in …
Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas
Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the …
Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period
Häftad, 2019
789 kr
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During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world. …
Realism of Piero della Francesca
Av Joost Keizer
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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The fifteenth-century Italian artist Piero della Francesca painted a familiar world. Roads wind through hilly landscapes, run past farms, sheds, barns, and villages. This is the world in which Piero lived. At the same time, Piero’s paintings depict a world that is distant. The subjects of his …
Hybridity in Early Modern Art
Av Ashley Elston, Madeline Rislow
Inbunden, 2021
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This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the increased presence in art historical scholarship of interdisciplinary frameworks that extend art …
Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 2021
729 kr
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In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This …
Thresholds and Boundaries
Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)
Häftad, 2019
814 kr
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Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated. …
Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography
Av Angeliki Pollali, Berthold Hub
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits ‘canonical’ forms …
Ethics of Ornament in Early Modern Naples
Fashioning the Certosa di San Martino
Häftad, 2019
729 kr
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The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their monastery, the Certosa di San Martino, into a jewel of marble revetment, painting, and sculpture. The aesthetics of the church generate a jarring moral …
Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490
Av Diana Hiller
Häftad, 2021
708 kr
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Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely …
Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform
Häftad, 2021
729 kr
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Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a …
Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture
Häftad, 2021
729 kr
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The first English-language overview of the contributions to Renaissance architectural culture of northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616), this book introduces Anglophone architects and historians to a little-known figure from a period that is recognized as one of the most …
Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus
Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture
Häftad, 2021
729 kr
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Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian …
Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World
1200–1800
Av Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Lisandra Estevez
Inbunden, 2024
2594 kr
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This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.Taking a trans-cultural approach, the book studies the production of polychrome sculptures, panels, and altarpieces, as well as colored terracotta. The book includes …
Antonello da Messina and the History of Art
Inbunden, 2025
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This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself.Featuring new interpretations of some of his best-known works, Anna Swartwood House shows how the uncertainties surrounding the painter have made him a …
Antonello da Messina and the History of Art
Häftad, 2026
729 kr
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This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430–1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself.Featuring new interpretations of some of his best-known works, Anna Swartwood House shows how the uncertainties surrounding the painter have made him a …
Imaging Stuart Family Politics
Dynastic Crisis and Continuity
Häftad, 2020
725 kr
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From conception onwards, Stuart offspring were presented to their subjects through texts, images and public celebrations. Audiences were exhorted to share in their development, establishing affective bonds with the royal family and its latest additions. Yet inviting the public into Stuart domestic …
Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández
Polychrome Sculptures of the Supine Christ in Seventeenth-Century Spain
Häftad, 2020
704 kr
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Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia Colón Mendoza investigates how and why the artist and his patrons manipulated these images in connection with the religious literature of the time to produce striking images that moved the …
Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561–1629), Carlo Antonio (1571–1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574–1625), the most important family of painters working in northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth century. The Procaccinis' work is here analysed by …
Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting
Av Rafael Japón
Inbunden, 2022
2578 kr
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This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters.Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the …
Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting
Av Rafael Japón
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters.Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the …
