A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a
diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays
addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and
1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern
history.
* Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art
experts that address various aspects of European visual arts
produced from circa 1300 to 1700
* Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical
Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature
of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message:
Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the
Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse
* Covers many topics not typically included in collections of
this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises,
the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the
arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality
* Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and
gender, and the art and production of tapestries,
conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater
* Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory’s
interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant
discoveries
* Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included
in the book
Tabella dei contenuti
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
Circa l’autore
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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