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Author:   Babette Bohn (Texas Christian University, USA) ,  James M. Saslow (Queens College, CUNY, USA) ,  Dana Arnold (University of Southampton)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 18.20cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.284kg
ISBN:  

9781444337266

ISBN 10:   1444337262
Pages:   648
Publication Date:   22 February 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contributors viii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow Part 1 The Context: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production 21 1 A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy 23 Sheryl E. Reiss 2 Judaism and the Arts in Early Modern Europe: Jewish and Christian Encounters 44 Shelley Perlove 3 Religion, Politics, and Art in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy 65 Julia I. Miller 4 Europe?s Global Vision 85 Larry Silver 5 Italian Art and the North: Exchanges, Critical Reception, and Identity, 1400?1700 106 Amy Golahny 6 The Desiring Eye: Gender, Sexuality, and the Visual Arts 127 James M. Saslow Part 2 The Artist: Creative Process and Social Status 149 7 The Artist as Genius 151 William E. Wallace 8 Drawing in Renaissance Italy 168 Mary Vaccaro 9 Self-Portraiture 1400?1700 189 H. Perry Chapman 10 Recasting the Role of the Italian Sculptor: Sculptors, Patrons, Materials, and Principles for the New Early Modern Age 210 Elinor M. Richter 11 From Oxymoron to Virile Paintbrush: Women Artists in Early Modern Europe 229 Babette Bohn Part 3 The Object: Art as Material Culture 251 12 The Birth of Mass Media: Printmaking in Early Modern Europe 253 Alison G. Stewart 13 The Material Culture of Family Life in Italy and Beyond 275 Jacqueline Marie Musacchio 14 Tapestry: Luxurious Art, Collaborative Industry 295 Koenraad Brosens 15 The New Sciences and the Visual Arts 316 Eileen Reeves 16 Seeing Through Renaissance and Baroque Paintings: Case Studies 336 Claire Barry Part 4 The Message: Subjects and Meanings 359 17 Iconography in Renaissance and Baroque Art 361 Mark Zucker 18 Renaissance Landscapes: Discovering the World and Human Nature 381 Lawrence O. Goedde 19 The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art 402 Thomas Martin 20 Genre Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe 422 Wayne Franits 21 The Meaning of the European Painted Portrait, 1400?1650 442 Joanna Woods-Marsden 22 All the World?s a Stage: The Theater Conceit in Early Modern Italy 463 Inge Jackson Reist 23 Intensity and Orthodoxy in Iberian and Hispanic Art of the Tridentine Era, 1550?1700 484 Marcus B. Burke Part 5 The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse 505 24 Historians of Northern European Art: From Johann Neudörfer and Karel van Mander to the Rembrandt Research Project 507 Jeffrey Chipps Smith 25 Artistic Biography in Italy: Vasari to Malvasia 525 David Cast 26 With a Critical Eye: Painting and Theory in France, 1600?43 The Case of Simon Vouet and Nicolas Poussin 541 Joseph C. Forte 27 The Italian Piazza: From Gothic Footnote to Baroque Theater 561 Niall Atkinson 28 Building in Theory and Practice: Writing about Architecture in the Renaissance 582 Carolyn Yerkes Index 602

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"?The comprehensive collection of essays addresses major aspects of European visual arts produced in 1300-1700. This book offers developments in the sphere of theory and criticism with the changing tastes, attitudes, and goals among patrons and artists.? (NeoPopRealism Journal, 1 August 2013) ""Provides a fuller context for students to understand the confluence of ideas related to art production and allows students an opportunity to examine several examples of methodological principles behind art historical research ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students."" (Choice, 1 September 2013) ?An enlightening and enabling companion to the study of Renaissance and Baroque art history from the classic heartland of the discipline to the latest frontiers.? - Joseph Connors, Harvard University ?Focusing on the Renaissance and Baroque periods, this collection demonstrates for scholars and students alike where art history has been and where it is going.? - David G. Wilkins, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburg ?The editors have gathered some of the best-known scholars of Renaissance and Baroque art history to create a vibrant picture of contemporary thinking about Early Modern art, in a collection usefully organized by categories of particular interest today.? - Mary D. Garrard, Professor Emerita, American University"

The comprehensive collection of essays addresses major aspects of European visual arts produced in 1300-1700. This book offers developments in the sphere of theory and criticism with the changing tastes, attitudes, and goals among patrons and artists. ( NeoPopRealism Journal , 1 August 2013) Provides a fuller context for students to understand the confluence of ideas related to art production and allows students an opportunity to examine several examples of methodological principles behind art historical research ... Summing Up Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students. ( Choice , 1 September 2013)

The comprehensive collection of essays addresses major aspects of European visual arts produced in 1300-1700. This book offers developments in the sphere of theory and criticism with the changing tastes, attitudes, and goals among patrons and artists. (NeoPopRealism Journal, 1 August 2013) Provides a fuller context for students to understand the confluence of ideas related to art production and allows students an opportunity to examine several examples of methodological principles behind art historical research ... Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through graduate students. (Choice, 1 September 2013)

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Author Information

Babette Bohn is Professor of Art History at Texas Christian University. Her publications include two books on Italian prints, Agostino Carracci (1995) and Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century (1996), and two on the drawings of Ludovico Carracci (2004) and Guido Reni (2008). James M. Saslow is Professor of Art History, Theatre, and Renaissance Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His most recent book, Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (1999), received two awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation.

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