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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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 ...
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 ...
Mannerism, Spirituality and Cognition: The Art Of Enargeia
1st Edition
By Lynette M. F. Bosch
May 31, 2023
This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elements of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality.Lynette M. F. Bosch examines the conceptual vocabulary found in sixteenth-century ...
Artistic Circulation between Early Modern Spain and Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, Tommaso Mozzati
June 13, 2022
This collection of essays by major scholars in the field explores how the rich intersections between Italy and Spain during the early modern period resulted in a confluence of cultural ideals. Various means of exchange and convergence are explored through two main catalysts: humans—their trips...
Women’s Patronage and Gendered Cultural Networks in Early Modern Europe: Vittoria della Rovere, Grand Duchess of Tuscany
1st Edition
By Adelina Modesti
June 13, 2022
This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Vittoria della Rovere. Adelina Modesti uses Grand ...
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 ...
Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform
1st Edition
By Douglas N. Dow
March 31, 2021
Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a...
Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490
1st Edition
By Diana Hiller
March 31, 2021
Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely ...
Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
March 31, 2021
In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This ...
The 'Small Landscape' Prints in Early Modern Netherlands
1st Edition
By Alexandra Onuf
March 31, 2021
In 1559 and 1561, the Antwerp print publisher Hieronymus Cock issued an unprecedented series of landscape prints known today simply as the Small Landscapes. The forty-four prints included in the series offer views of the local countryside surrounding Antwerp in simple, unembellished compositions. ...
Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture
1st Edition
By Ann Marie Borys
March 31, 2021
The first English-language overview of the contributions to Renaissance architectural culture of northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616), this book introduces Anglophone architects and historians to a little-known figure from a period that is recognized as one of the most ...
Art and Reform in the Late Renaissance: After Trent
1st Edition
Edited
By Jesse M. Locker
September 30, 2020
Drawing on recent research by established and emerging scholars of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century art, this volume reconsiders the art and architecture produced after 1563 across the conventional geographic borders. Rather than considering this period a degraded afterword to Renaissance ...