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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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 ...
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 ...
Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel of the Medici Palace
1st Edition
By Stefanie Solum
September 30, 2020
Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici’s impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman’s contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century ...
Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography
1st Edition
Edited
By Angeliki Pollali, Berthold Hub
September 11, 2019
Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits ‘canonical’ forms ...
The Ethics of Ornament in Early Modern Naples: Fashioning the Certosa di San Martino
1st Edition
By J. Nicholas Napoli
September 11, 2019
The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series of decorative campaigns in the 1580s that continued until 1757, transforming the church of their monastery, the Certosa di San Martino, into a jewel of marble revetment, painting, and sculpture. The aesthetics of the church generate a jarring moral...
Thresholds and Boundaries: Liminality in Netherlandish Art (1385-1530)
1st Edition
By Lynn F. Jacobs
September 11, 2019
Although liminality has been studied by scholars of medieval and seventeenth-century art, the role of the threshold motif in Netherlandish art of the late fourteenth, fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries -- this late medieval/early ‘early modern’ period -- has been much less fully investigated....
The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris: Patronage in Late Renaissance Bavaria
1st Edition
By Susan Maxwell
June 12, 2019
Shedding new light on the relatively unknown art of the Wittelsbach dukes's sixteenth-century court, The Court Art of Friedrich Sustris represents the first monograph to focus on this Italian-trained Netherlandish artist. The volume incorporates original archival material, including letters and ...
Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome
1st Edition
By Piers Baker-Bates
May 17, 2019
Sebastiano del Piombo (c.1485-1547) was a close associate and rival of the central artistic figures of the High Renaissance, notably Michelangelo and Raphael. After the death of Raphael and the departure of Michelangelo from Rome, Sebastiano became the dominant artistic personality in the city. ...
Cuckoldry, Impotence and Adultery in Europe (15th-17th century)
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
April 25, 2018
In Renaissance and early modern Europe, various constellations of phenomena-ranging from sex scandals to legal debates to flurries of satirical prints-collectively demonstrate, at different times and places, an increased concern with cuckoldry, impotence and adultery. This concern emerges in ...
Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior
1st Edition
By Erin J. Campbell
April 25, 2018
Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture ...