Visual Culture in Early Modernity
About the Book Series
A forum for the critical inquiry of the visual arts in the early modern world, Visual Culture in Early Modernity promotes new models of inquiry and new narratives of early modern art and its history. We welcome proposals for both monographs and essay collections that consider the cultural production and reception of images and objects. The range of topics covered in this series includes, but is not limited to, painting, sculpture and architecture as well as material objects, such as domestic furnishings, religious and/or ritual accessories, costume, scientific/medical apparata, erotica, ephemera and printed matter. We seek innovative investigations of western and non-western visual culture produced between 1400 and 1800.
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Antonello da Messina and the History of Art
1st Edition
By Anna Swartwood House
March 30, 2025
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 ...
Early Modern Replicas of the Holy House of Loreto: Translating Space
1st Edition
By Erin Giffin
March 27, 2025
This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media. Interdisciplinary in its design, the project engages with a broad spectrum of cultures and lay strata, ...
A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples: The Del Riccio in the Shadow of Michelangelo
1st Edition
By Vincenzo Sorrentino
October 04, 2024
This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as shedding light on the intellectual and social exchanges between different regions of Italy and on ...
The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo: Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life
1st Edition
By Tamara Smithers
August 26, 2024
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 ...
Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World: 1200–1800
1st Edition
Edited
By Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Lisandra Estevez
July 04, 2024
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 ...
Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome
1st Edition
By Karen J. Lloyd
May 27, 2024
Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to ...
The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting
1st Edition
By Rafael Japón
May 27, 2024
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 ...
The Procaccini and the Business of Painting in Early Modern Milan
1st Edition
By Angelo Lo Conte
May 27, 2024
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 ...
Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland
1st Edition
By Olga Maria Hajduk
April 23, 2024
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 half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop. Chapters examine the organization of the artistic workshop (sculpting and masonry) and the model of ...
Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art: Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women
1st Edition
Edited
By Noelia García Pérez
March 05, 2024
This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance. Chapters examine the creation, promotion, and display of the image of women in power, and how the artistic and cultural patronage they developed helped them craft a...
Hybridity in Early Modern Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashley Elston, Madeline Rislow
September 25, 2023
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 ...
Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture
1st Edition
By Charles H. Carman
August 02, 2021
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 ...