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OverviewAnxious about the threat of Ottoman invasion and a religious schism that threatened Christianity from within, sixteenth-century northern Europeans increasingly saw their world as disharmonious and full of mutual contradictions. Examining the work of four unusual but influential northern Europeans as they faced Europe’s changing identity, Jennifer Nelson reveals the ways in which these early modern thinkers and artists grappled with the problem of cultural, religious, and cosmological difference in relation to notions of universals and the divine. Focusing on northern Europe during the first half of the sixteenth century, this book proposes a complementary account of a Renaissance and Reformation for which epistemology is not so much destabilized as pluralized. Addressing a wide range of media—including paintings, etchings and woodcuts, university curriculum regulations, clocks, sundials, anthologies of proverbs, and astrolabes—Nelson argues that inconsistency, discrepancy, and contingency were viewed as fundamental features of worldly existence. Taking as its starting point Hans Holbein’s famously complex double portrait The Ambassadors, and then examining Philipp Melanchthon’s measurement-minded theology of science, Georg Hartmann’s modular sundials, and Desiderius Erasmus’s eclectic Adages, Disharmony of the Spheres is a sophisticated and challenging reconsideration of sixteenth-century northern European culture and its discomforts. Carefully researched and engagingly written, Disharmony of the Spheres will be of vital interest to historians of early modern European art, religion, science, and culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jennifer Nelson (Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, University of Delaware)Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 25.40cm Weight: 0.816kg ISBN: 9780271083407ISBN 10: 0271083409 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 24 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Anamorphosis as Symbolic Form 2. Melanchthon’s Imperfect Mathematics 3. Hartmann’s Locative Science 4. Erasmus Enumerates Europe 5. The Self-Dissimilar Salvation of Holbein’s Ambassadors Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsA true delight. This is one of the most engaging monographs in art history (in fact truly interdisciplinary, but with a strong foundation in art history) I have had the pleasure to read in a long time. -Rebecca Zorach, author of The Passionate Triangle Disharmony of the Spheres exemplifies a genuinely new kind of early modern cultural studies. Each of Nelson's readings displays the same 'technical mastery' of the protocols of the several disciplines across which the book works-art history, history of science and technology, institutional history, early modern philology, and diplomacy too-that she so admires in Holbein's work. -Jane O. Newman, author of Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque Disharmony of the Spheres exemplifies a genuinely new kind of early modern cultural studies. Each of Nelson's readings displays the same 'technical mastery' of the protocols of the several disciplines across which the book works--art history, history of science and technology, institutional history, early modern philology, and diplomacy too--that she so admires in Holbein's work. --Jane O. Newman, author of Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque Disharmony of the Spheres exemplifies a genuinely new kind of Early Modern Cultural Studies. Each of Nelson's readings displays the same 'technical mastery' of the protocols of the several disciplines across which the book works--art history, history of science and technology, institutional history, early modern philology, and diplomacy too--that she so admires in Holbein's work. --Jane O. Newman, author of Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque Disharmony of the Spheres exemplifies a genuinely new kind of Early Modern Cultural Studies. Each of Nelson's readings displays the same `technical mastery' of the protocols of the several disciplines across which the book works-art history, history of science and technology, institutional history, early modern philology, and diplomacy too-that she so admires in Holbein's work. -Jane O. Newman, author of Benjamin's Library: Modernity, Nation, and the Baroque Author InformationJennifer Nelson is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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