Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
About the Book Series
A forum for innovative research on the role of images and objects in the late medieval and early modern periods, Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 publishes monographs and essay collections that combine rigorous investigation with critical inquiry to present new narratives on a wide range of topics, from traditional arts to seemingly ordinary things. Recognizing the fluidity of images, objects, and ideas, this series fosters cross-cultural as well as multi-disciplinary exploration. We consider proposals from across the spectrum of analytic approaches and methodologies.
Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe: c. 1450-1700
1st Edition
Edited
By Tanja L. Jones
December 01, 2025
Women Artists in the Early Modern Courts of Europe, c. 1450.1700 presents the first collection of essays dedicated to women as producers of visual and material culture in the Early Modern European courts, offering fresh insights into the careers of, among others, Caterina van Hemessen, Sofonisba ...
Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety: Caterina Vigri and the Poor Clares in Early Modern Ferrara
1st Edition
By Kathleen Giles Arthur
December 01, 2025
Caterina Vigri (later Saint Catherine of Bologna) was a mystic, writer, teacher and nun-artist. Her first home, Corpus Domini, Ferrara, was a house of semi-religious women that became a Poor Clare convent and model of Franciscan Observant piety. Vigri's intensely spiritual decoration of her ...
Death, Disease and Mystical Experience in Early Modern Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Hill, Jennifer Milam
July 08, 2025
Fear of death and disease preoccupied the European consciousness throughout the early modern era, becoming most acute at times of plague and epidemics. In these times of heightened anxieties, images of saints and protectors served to reassure the faithful of their religious protection against ...
The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture
1st Edition
By Alexis Culotta
February 17, 2025
This book examines Roman façades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political, and familial allegiances that transformed a street-side stroll into a visually engaging ...
Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century: Strategic Reinterpretations
1st Edition
Edited
By Mechthild Fend, Jennifer Germann, Melissa Hyde
February 10, 2025
Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality....
Beuckelaer and the Art of Dining: Northern Painting, Food, and Social Class in Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Claudia Goldstein
December 23, 2024
Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer produced dozens of large-scale paintings of contemporary working women and men selling, presenting, and preparing a visually stunning array of foodstuffs for the viewer. These were new subjects in Antwerp and even newer in Italy, where elite ...
Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Sarah A. Bendall, Serena Dyer
December 13, 2024
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied. Whether making pottery, food, or textiles, the processes of manual production rested on an intersensory connection between mind, body, and object. This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, ...
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All’Antica in Early Modern Augsburg
1st Edition
By Rachel Carlisle
December 02, 2024
Picturing German Antiquity in the Age of Print: Art, Archaeology, and the Style All'antica in Early Modern Augsburg examines the central role of print to local antiquarian pursuits and generation of a style all'antica in early sixteenth-century Augsburg, Germany. Working in the shadow of Holy Roman...
Stigmatics and Visual Culture in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy
1st Edition
By Cordelia Warr
September 24, 2022
This book places the discourse surrounding stigmata within the visual culture of the late medieval and early modern periods, with a particular focus on Italy and on female stigmatics. Echoing, and to a certain extent recreating, the wounds and pain inflicted on Christ during his passion, stigmata ...