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Visual Culture in Early Modernity


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A forum for the critical inquiry of the visual arts in the early modern world, Visual Culture in Early Modernity promotes new models of inquiry and new narratives of early modern art and its history. We welcome proposals for both monographs and essay collections that consider the cultural production and reception of images and objects. The range of topics covered in this series includes, but is not limited to, painting, sculpture and architecture as well as material objects, such as domestic furnishings, religious and/or ritual accessories, costume, scientific/medical apparata, erotica, ephemera and printed matter. We seek innovative investigations of western and non-western visual culture produced between 1400 and 1800.

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Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World 1200–1800

Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World: 1200–1800

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Ilenia Colón Mendoza, Lisandra Estevez
June 21, 2024

This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.   Taking a trans-cultural approach, the book studies the production of polychrome sculptures, panels, and altarpieces, as well as colored terracotta and painted ...

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Olga Maria Hajduk
April 23, 2024

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533– c.1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop. Chapters examine the organization of the artistic workshop (sculpting and masonry) and the model of ...

Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women

Portraiture, Gender, and Power in Sixteenth-Century Art: Creating and Promoting the Public Image of Early Modern Women

1st Edition

Edited By Noelia García Pérez
March 05, 2024

This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance. Chapters examine the creation, promotion, and display of the image of women in power, and how the artistic and cultural patronage they developed helped them craft a...

Hybridity in Early Modern Art

Hybridity in Early Modern Art

1st Edition

Edited By Ashley Elston, Madeline Rislow
September 25, 2023

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 ...

Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

Art, Patronage, and Nepotism in Early Modern Rome

1st Edition

By Karen J. Lloyd
August 19, 2022

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rome – those nephews who were raised to the cardinalate as princes of the Church – used the arts to ...

The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life

The Cults of Raphael and Michelangelo: Artistic Sainthood and Memorials as a Second Life

1st Edition

By Tamara Smithers
July 29, 2022

This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fame—or second life—from their own times through the nineteenth century. These two artists inspired fervent followings like no other artists before them. The affective ...

A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples The Del Riccio in the Shadow of Michelangelo

A Patron Family Between Renaissance Florence, Rome, and Naples: The Del Riccio in the Shadow of Michelangelo

1st Edition

By Vincenzo Sorrentino
April 13, 2022

This book tells the story of the Del Riccio family in Florence in the early modern period, investigating the cultural mediations fostered by the family between Florence, Rome, and Naples, as well as shedding light on the intellectual and social exchanges between different regions of Italy and on ...

The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting

The Influence of Italian Culture on the Sevillian Golden Age of Painting

1st Edition

By Rafael Japón
March 21, 2022

This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors’ predilection for Italian painting and its influence on Spanish painters. Focused on collecting and using a novel methodology, this volume studies how the painters of the ...

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus: Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture

1st Edition

By Charles H. Carman
August 02, 2021

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian ...

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform

1st Edition

By Douglas N. Dow
March 31, 2021

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform examines through their art programs three different confraternal organizations in Florence at a...

Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490

Gendered Perceptions of Florentine Last Supper Frescoes, c. 1350–1490

1st Edition

By Diana Hiller
March 31, 2021

Despite the large number of monumental Last Supper frescoes which adorn refectories in Quattrocento Florence, until now no monograph has appeared in English on the Florentine Last Supper frescoes, nor has any study examined the perceptions of the original viewers. This study examines the rarely ...

Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy

Making and Moving Sculpture in Early Modern Italy

1st Edition

Edited By Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio
March 31, 2021

In recent years, art historians have begun to delve into the patronage, production and reception of sculptures-sculptors' workshop practices; practical, aesthetic, and esoteric considerations of material and materiality; and the meanings associated with materials and the makers of sculptures. This ...

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