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Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500–1700
Spanning two centuries and two continents, Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700 addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture …
Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party
Mining a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources, including stoneware jugs, personal correspondence, paintings, inventories, and literature written for the dining room, this study …
The Cristos yacentes of Gregorio Fernández
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 …
The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652)
Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652) as an artist and scholar of the Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. …
Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture
The first English-language overview of the contributions to Renaissance architectural culture of northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616), this book introduces …
Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
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, the …
Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy
Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with …
Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance
The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight. His remarkable leap in status from his humble birth to a …
Flemish and Dutch Artists in Early Modern England
By examining their production practices in a variety of genres”including manuscript illustration, glass painting and staining, tapestry manufacture, portrait painting, and …
Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence
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 interdisciplinary …
Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy
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. …
Vasari and the Renaissance Print
Prints changed the history of art, even as that history was first being written. In this study, Sharon Gregory argues that this reality was not lost on Vasari; she shows that, …