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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Visual Acuity and the Arts of Communication in Early Modern Germany
1st Edition
Edited
By Jeffrey Chipps Smith
February 06, 2018
During the early modern period, visual imagery was put to ever new uses as many disciplines adopted visual criteria for testing truth claims, representing knowledge, or conveying information. Religious propagandists, political writers, satirists, cartographers, the scientific community, and others...
Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy: The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration
1st Edition
By Minou Schraven
February 05, 2018
Celebrated at the heart of a notoriously unstable period, the Vacant See, papal funerals in early modern Rome easily fell prey to ceremonial chaos and disorder. Charged with maintaining decorum, papal Masters of Ceremonies supervised all aspects of the funeral, from the correct handling of the ...
The Spiritual Rococo: Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia
1st Edition
By Gauvin Alexander Bailey
December 18, 2017
A groundbreaking approach to Rococo religious décor and spirituality in Europe and South America, The Spiritual Rococo addresses three basic conundrums that impede our understanding of eighteenth-century aesthetics and culture. Why did the Rococo, ostensibly the least spiritual style in the ...
The Spectacle of Clouds, 1439–1650: Italian Art and Theatre
1st Edition
By Alessandra Buccheri
October 12, 2017
The studies in which history of art and theatre are considered together are few, and none to date investigate the evolution of the representation of clouds from the early Renaissance to the Baroque period. This book reconsiders the origin of Italian Renaissance and Baroque cloud compositions while ...
Death, Torture and the Broken Body in European Art, 1300–1650
1st Edition
Edited
By John R. Decker, Mitzi Kirkland-Ives
June 16, 2017
Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: from paintings to prints to small sculptures, the art of the late Middle Ages and early modern period gave rise to disturbing scenes of violence. Many of these torture scenes recall Christ’s Passion and its aftermath, but the martyrdoms of ...
Faith, Gender and the Senses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art: Interpreting the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas
1st Edition
By Erin E. Benay, Lisa M. Rafanelli
June 14, 2017
Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomas episodes as a focal point, this study examines how visual representations of two of the most compelling and related Christian stories engaged with changing devotional and cultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. This book reconsiders ...
Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Gillgren, Mårten Snickare
May 31, 2017
A new interest in the study of early modern ritual, ceremony, formations of personal and collective identities, social roles, and the production of meaning inside and outside the arts have made it possible to talk today about a performative turn in the humanities. In Performativity and Performance ...
Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice
1st Edition
Edited
By Alice E. Sanger, Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker
May 31, 2017
Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Sense ...
The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen: Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht
1st Edition
By Natasha T. Seaman
May 31, 2017
The first in-depth study of the Utrecht artist to address questions beyond connoisseurship and attribution, this book makes a significant contribution to Ter Brugghen and Northern Caravaggist studies. Focusing on the Dutch master's simultaneous use of Northern archaisms with Caravaggio's motifs ...
The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652): Authentic Voices/Expanding Markets
1st Edition
By Tamara Heimarck Bentley
May 24, 2017
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 on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen's oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic...
Inganno – The Art of Deception: Imitation, Reception, and Deceit in Early Modern Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Gregory, Sally Anne Hickson
May 22, 2017
The essays contained in this volume address issues surrounding the use, dissemination, and reception of copies and even deliberate forgeries within the history of art, focusing on paintings, prints and sculptures created and sold from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. The essays also...
Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy
1st Edition
Edited
By Sara F. Matthews-Grieco
March 29, 2017
Concentrating largely on the 'middle ranks' of society in Renaissance Italy - artisans, merchants, and professionals such as bankers and lawyers - this book focuses on new social subjects, new documents and unusual objects. Using innovative methods of inquiry and interdisciplinary analytical tools,...