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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Renaissance Porticoes and Painted Pergolas: Nature and Culture in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Natsumi Nonaka
April 17, 2019
This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergolas that appeared in Rome and environs in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, it tells the ...
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing
1st Edition
By Catherine H. Lusheck
April 17, 2019
Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing re-examines the early graphic practice of the preeminent northern Baroque painter Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, 1577–1640) in light of early modern traditions of eloquence, particularly as promoted in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Flemish, ...
Visual Culture and Mathematics in the Early Modern Period
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
April 17, 2019
During the early modern period there was a natural correspondence between how artists might benefit from the knowledge of mathematics and how mathematicians might explore, through advances in the study of visual culture, new areas of enquiry that would uncover the mysteries of the visible world. ...
The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England: Little Gidding and the pursuit of scriptural harmony
1st Edition
By Michael Gaudio
November 21, 2018
The first book-length study of the fifteen surviving Little Gidding bible concordances, this book examines the visual culture of print in seventeenth-century England through the lens of one extraordinary family and their hand-made biblical manuscripts. The volumes were created by the women of the ...
The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Andaleeb Badiee Banta
November 21, 2018
Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and their contemporaries, continued to shape artistic development, tastes in collecting, and modes of display long after their own practices ended. ...
Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Arthur J. DiFuria
August 14, 2018
Exploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in early modern northern European genre images, this volume deepens our understanding of genre's place in early modern visual culture. From 1500 to 1700, artists in northern Europe pioneered the category of pictures now known as genre, portrayals of ...
Material Bernini
1st Edition
Edited
By Evonne Levy, Carolina Mangone
August 14, 2018
Bringing together established and emerging specialists in seventeenth-century Italian sculpture, Material Bernini is the first sustained examination of the conspicuous materiality of Bernini’s work in sculpture, architecture, and paint. The various essays demonstrate that material Bernini has ...
Prints in Translation, 1450–1750: Image, Materiality, Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Suzanne Karr Schmidt, Edward H. Wouk
August 02, 2018
Printed artworks were often ephemeral, but in the early modern period, exchanges between print and other media were common, setting off chain reactions of images and objects that endured. Paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, musical or scientific instruments, and armor exerted their own influence...
Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy
1st Edition
By Diana Bullen Presciutti
June 20, 2018
The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public’s imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals ...
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 ...
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...