1st Edition

Hybridity in Early Modern Art

Edited By Ashley Elston, Madeline Rislow Copyright 2022
190 Pages 16 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 16 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

190 Pages 16 Color & 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the increased presence in art historical scholarship of interdisciplinary frameworks that extend art historical inquiry beyond the single time or material. The essays engage with what happens when... Read more

Introduction: Hybridity in Early Modern Art

Ashley Elston and Madeline Rislow

Part 1: Hybrid Media

1. Connecting Human and Divine: Carlo Crivelli’s Hybrid Media

Amanda Hilliam

2. Collaboration and Dissonance in Siena’s Bichi Altarpiece

Ashley Elston

3. Emblems and Hybridity in a Southern German Epitaph Sculpture

Catharine Ingersoll

4. Hybridity, Media, and Source Material in Visual Representations of the Wild Woman: Transitions from Hand-Copied Manuscripts to Hand-Press Prints

Michelle Moseley-Christian

5. A Material Legacy: Hybridity and French Manuscript Illumination from the Late Fifteenth through Sixteenth Centuries

Larisa Grollemond

Part 2: Hybrid Time

6. Visual Hybridity in the Sancta Sanctorum (Rome): Reframing the Middle Ages

Kirstin Noreen

7. (Re-)Encasing the Ashes of St. John the Baptist in Genoa Across Time

Madeline Rislow

8. Recycling, Renaissance Style: Hybridity and Giorgio Vasari’s Pieve Altarpieces

Sally J. Cornelison

9. Style and Meaning Beyond Europe: Bernardo Bitti and Mannerism

Christa Irwin

Biography

Ashley Elston is Associate Professor of Art History at Berea College.

Madeline Rislow is Associate Professor and Director of Art History, School of Fine Arts, Missouri Western State University.