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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Caravaggio in Early Modern Sicily
1st Edition
By Danielle Carrabino
March 12, 2026
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 ...
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
December 25, 2025
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...
Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland
1st Edition
By Olga Maria Hajduk
December 25, 2025
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 ...
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, ...
Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo
1st Edition
By C. Cody Barteet
October 14, 2024
This book investigates the Casa de Montejo and considers the role of the building’s Plateresque façade as a form of visual rhetoric that conveyed ideas about the individual and communal cultural identities in sixteenth-century Yucatán. C. Cody Barteet analyzes the façade within the complex colonial...
Guercino's Paintings and His Patrons' Politics in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Daniel M. Unger
October 14, 2024
Guercino's Paintings and His Patrons' Politics in Early Modern Italy examines how the seventeenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (better known as Il Guercino) instilled the political ideas of his patrons into his paintings. As it focuses on eight works showing religious scenes ...
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 ...