Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Interested in the ways in which medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they a... Lees meer

Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, C. 1350-1490

Diana Hiller

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in E... Lees meer

Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome

Piers Baker-Bates

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and ... Lees meer

The Cristos Yacentes of Gregorio Fernández

Ilenia Colón Mendoza

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christ produced by Gregorio Fernàndez, author Ilenia ColÃ3n Mendoza investigates how and why the arti... Lees meer

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

Olga Maria Hajduk

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533- c.1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second ... Lees meer

Material Bernini

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination o... Lees meer

The Viewer and the Printed Image in Late Medieval Europe

David S Areford

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Structured around in-depth and interconnected case studies and driven by a methodology of material, contextual, and iconographic analysis, this book a... Lees meer

Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• During the early modern period, visual imagery was put to ever new uses as many disciplines adopted visual criteria for testing truth claims, represen... Lees meer

The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, ... Lees meer

Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• The early modern period saw the proliferation of religious, public and charitable institutions and the emergence of new educational structures. By bri... Lees meer

The Realism of Piero della Francesca

Joost Keizer

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Piero della Francesca tried to introduce a new idea of painting. Based on a methodical application of perspective, his work cultivated the illusion th... Lees meer

Rethinking the High Renaissance

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• The perception that the early sixteenth century saw a culmination of the Renaissance classical revival - only to degrade into mannerism shortly after ... Lees meer

Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural... Lees meer

Rethinking the High Renaissance

• Hardcover | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Focusing on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, this title features essays that present a case study of a particular aspe... Lees meer

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus

Charles H Carman

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Visi... Lees meer

The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652)

Tamara Heimarck Bentley

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• 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... Lees meer

Prints in Translation, 1450-1750

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain reaction... Lees meer

Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni

Pamela M Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The five ... Lees meer

Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe (15th-17th Century)

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• In Renaissance and early modern Europe, various constellations of phenomena-ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to flurries of satirical prints... Lees meer

Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practica... Lees meer

Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500 1700

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Spanning two centuries and two continents, Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700 addresses the impact of religious tensions on a... Lees meer

The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400-1700

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic ... Lees meer

Women's Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe

Adelina Modesti

• Hardcover | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cu... Lees meer

Renaissance Theories of Vision

Charles H Carman

• Paperback | Engels | Visual Culture in Early Modernity
• How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays i... Lees meer