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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Vasari and the Renaissance Print
1st Edition
By Sharon Gregory
October 06, 2016
Prints changed the history of art, even as that history was first being written. In this study, Sharon Gregory argues that this reality was not lost on Vasari; she shows that, contrary to common opinion, prints thoroughly pervade Vasari's history of art, just as they pervade his own career as an ...
Caravaggio: Reflections and Refractions
1st Edition
Edited
By Lorenzo Pericolo, David M. Stone
September 13, 2016
As this collection of essays makes clear, the paths to grasping the complexity of Caravaggio’s art are multiple and variable. Art historians from the UK and North America offer new or recently updated interpretations of the works of seventeenth-century Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da ...
Reframing Albrecht Dürer: The Appropriation of Art, 1528–1700
1st Edition
By Andrea Bubenik
September 13, 2016
Focusing on the ways his art and persona were valued and criticized by writers, collectors, and artists subsequent to his death, this book examines the reception of the works of Albrecht Dürer. Andrea Bubenik's analysis highlights the intensive and international interest in Dürer's art and ...
Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500–1700
1st Edition
Edited
By Virginia Chieffo Raguin
September 12, 2016
Spanning two centuries and two continents, Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700 addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern world. Beyond famous works of art such as Kraft's Eucharistic Tabernacle, the volume examines ...
Leone Leoni and the Status of the Artist at the End of the Renaissance
1st Edition
By Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
September 08, 2016
The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but died as a nobleman and knight. His remarkable leap in status from his humble birth to a stonemason's family, to his time as a galley slave, to living as a nobleman and courtier in Milan provide a specific case ...
Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party
1st Edition
By Claudia Goldstein
September 08, 2016
Mining a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources, including stoneware jugs, personal correspondence, paintings, inventories, and literature written for the dining room, this study offers a critical and entirely original examination of the function of early modern images for the people who owned and ...
Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion, Punishment
1st Edition
Edited
By Allison Levy
September 08, 2016
Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also ...
The Cult of St Clare of Assisi in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby
August 26, 2016
Notwithstanding the wealth of material published about St Clare of Assisi (1193-1253) in the context of medieval scholarship, and the wealth of visual material regarding her, there is a dearth of published scholarship concerning her cult in the early modern period. This work examines the ...
Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy: From Sprezzatura to Satire
1st Edition
By Eugenia Paulicelli
August 26, 2016
The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality ...
Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Cavallo, Silvia Evangelisti
December 23, 2009
The early modern period saw the proliferation of religious, public and charitable institutions and the emergence of new educational structures. By bringing together two areas of inquiry that have so far been seen as distinct, the study of institutions and that of the house and domesticity, this ...
The Technology of Salvation and the Art of Geertgen tot Sint Jans
1st Edition
By John R. Decker
April 28, 2009
Investigating the complex interactions between devotional imagery and Church doctrine in the Low Countries during the fifteenth century, this book demonstrates how the pictorial arts intersected with popular religious practice. The author reconstructs the conceptual frameworks underlying the use ...