Description
Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“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)
Table of ContentsContributors 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
