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Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, this title features essays that present a case study of a particular aspect of the culture of the city in the early sixteenth century, including new analyses of Raphael's "stanze", Michelangelo's "Sistine Ceiling" and the architectural designs of Bramante.

Exploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in early modern northern European genre images, this volume deepens our understanding of genre''s place in early modern visual culture. From 1500 to 1700, artists in northern Europe pioneered the category of pictures now known as genre, portrayals of people in ostensibly quotidian situations. Critical approaches to genre images have moved past the antiquated notion that they portray uncomplicated ''slices of life,'' describing them instead as heavily encoded pictorial essays, laden with symbols that only the most erudite contemporary viewers and modern iconographers could fully comprehend. These essays challenge that limiting binary, revealing a more expansive array of accessible meanings in genre''s deft grafting of everyday scenarios with a rich complex of experiential, cultural, political, and religious references. Authors deploy a variety of approaches to detail genre''s multivalent relations to older, more established pictorial and literary categories, the interplay between the meaning of the everyday and its translation into images, and the multifaceted concerns genre addressed for its rapidly expanding, unprecedentedly diverse audience.

Adopting a broad chronological framework and expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, this collection offers new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy.

Claudia Goldstein mines a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources to shed new light on the cultural history of sixteenth-century Antwerp. Recontextualizing some of Bruegel's work within the cultural nexus of the dining room.

Addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern world. This title examines famous works of art such as Kraft's "Eucharistic Tabernacle", the less-studied objects, including church plate and vestments, stained glass, graffiti, and Mexican images of St Anne.

Focusing on eight works showing religious scenes and scenes taken from Roman history, this volume bridges the gap between social and cultural history and the history of art, untangling the threads of art, politics, and religion during the time of the Thirty Years' War.

Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) was as an artist and scholar of the Ming period. Considering Chen's paintings and prints alongside Chen's romance drama commentaries and prefaces and his collected writings (particularly poetry), this title focuses not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century.

Emphasizing on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers, this book focuses on social subjects, documents and unusual objects. It demonstrates how a burgeoning market for erotica, along with a cultural tradition of allusion and innuendo.

Focusing on the ways his art and persona were valued and criticized by writers, collectors, and artists subsequent to his death, this book examines the reception of the works of Albrecht Durer. The author traces carefully how Durer's paintings, prints, drawings and theoretical writings traveled widely.

Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, this volume explores the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual.

Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, this collection includes essays that explore the concept of beholding and the experiences of individual and collective beholders of violence during the period.

Examining their production practices in various genres including manuscript illustration, glass painting and staining, tapestry manufacture, portrait painting, and engraving, this book explores how Netherlandish artists migrating to England in the early modern period overcame difficulties raised by their outsider status.

Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters - Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz de Heem, this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form.

Focusing on the Dutch master's simultaneous use of Northern archaisms with Caravaggio's motifs and style, the author nuances our understanding of Ter Brugghen's appropriations from the Italian painter. Her analysis centers on four paintings: "Crowning with Thorns", the "Crucifixion", "Doubting Thomas" and the "Calling of Matthew".

Includes essays that address issues surrounding the use, dissemination, and reception of copies and even deliberate forgeries within the history of art, focusing on paintings, prints and sculptures created and sold from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century.

Examines Giorgio Vasari's interest, as an art historian and as an artist, in engravings and woodblock prints, focusing not only on aspects of Vasari's career, but also on aspects of sixteenth-century artistic culture and artistic practice.

The early modern period saw the proliferation of religious, public and charitable institutions and the emergence of new educational structures. This collection provides fresh insights into the domestic experience of men, women and children who lived in non-family arrangements, expanding and problematizing the notion of 'domestic interior'.

Tracing the history of St Antoninus' cult and burial from the time of his death in 1459 until his remains were moved to their final resting place in 1589, this study demonstrates that the saint's relic cult was a key element of Florence's sacred cityscape.

Explores performative aspects of Baroque culture, giving examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life, from theatre, music and ritual as well as from architecture, painting and sculpture. This title demonstrates how broadly the concept of performativity has been adopted among scholars of different disciplines.

The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight with a house and art collection envied by the nobility. This book focuses on Leoni's background and character, and on unknown aspects of his career, his social position in Milan, and the contents of his impressive art collection.

During the early modern period, visual imagery was put to ever new uses as many disciplines adopted visual criteria for testing truth claims, representing knowledge, or conveying information. Religious propagandists, political writers, satirists, cartographers, the scientific community, and others experimented with uses of visual images. Artists.

Focusing on the Mozarabic Chapel and Chapter Room of Toledo Cathedral, Erika Dolphin analyzes the patronage of Archbishop Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (r. 1495-1517), as well as the artistic formation of fresco painter Juan de Borgoña and the lesser-known artist Luis de Medina. The Renaissance in Castile represents a major step forward in understanding the important Spanish contributions to an emerging pan-European visual culture.

Reveals Lucrezia Tornabuoni de' Medici's impact on the visual world of her time. This is a full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman's contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. It maps out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power in which Lippi's painting was originally embedded.

The Spectacle of Clouds examines the different ways Heaven has been conceived and represented from the 15th to the 17th century, crossing over into the fields of history, religion and philosophy. By examining visual sources such as paintings, frescos and stage designs, together with letters, guild-ledgers.

Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine, and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. It foregrounds the visual culture of early modern sexuality, from representations of sex and sexualized bodies to material objects associated with sexual activities.

Shedding light on the relatively unknown art of the Wittelsbach dukes' sixteenth-century court, this is a monograph to focus on this Italian-trained Netherlandish artist. It incorporates original archival material, including letters and payment records into the analysis of Sustris' many projects that ranged from large fresco cycles.

Challenging the conventional wisdom that Pieter Bruegel the Elder eschewed Italianate influences, this title demonstrates how the artist's later peasant paintings reveal a complicated artistic dialogue in which visual concepts and pictorial motifs from Italian and classical ideas are employed for a specifically Northern phenomenon.

Interdisciplinary in scope, this book constitutes the first overview of the development of early modern papal funeral apparati, the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter's. Drawing from a range of unpublished sources.