A social history of reception, this study focuses on sacred art and Catholicism in Rome during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The five altarpieces examined here were painted by artists who are admired today - Caravaggio, Guercino, and...Daugiau...
Focusing on the Mozarabic Chapel and Chapter Room of Toledo Cathedral, Erika Dolphin analyzes the patronage of Archbishop Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (r. 1495-1517), as well as the artistic formation of fresco painter Juan de Borgoñ...Daugiau...
This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself. Featuring new interpretations of some of his best-known works, Anna Swartwood House shows how the uncertain...Daugiau...
This comprehensive and cross-cultural study examines three-dimensional structural replicas of the Santa Casa, or Holy House of the Virgin Mary, and related circulating visual and textual media.Interdisciplinary in its design, the project en...Daugiau...
Guercinos Paintings and His Patrons Politics in Early Modern Italy examines how the seventeenth-century painter Guercino instilled the political ideas of his powerful patrons-including Pope Gregory XV, Cardinal Spada, and La Vrilličre-into his pai...Daugiau...
This book investigates the role of the architectural faēade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures....Daugiau...
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 ex...Daugiau...
This study explores the phenomenon of the cults of Raphael and Michelangelo in relation to their death, burial, and posthumous fameor second lifefrom their own times through the nineteenth century. This study explores the p...Daugiau...
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 cardinal...Daugiau...
This book explores the cultural exchange between Italy and Spain in the seventeenth century, examining Spanish collectors predilection for Italian painting and Spanish painters Italian influences....Daugiau...
The book investigates the lives and careers of the Procaccini brothers: Camillo (1561- 1629), Carlo Antonio (1571-1631) and Giulio Cesare (1574-1625), the most important family of painters working in Northern Italy at the start of the seventeenth cen...Daugiau...
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 organisation of the artistic...Daugiau...
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 cul...Daugiau...
This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary...Daugiau...
This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elements of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality.Lynette M. F. Bos...Daugiau...
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 cardinalat...Daugiau...
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 lik...Daugiau...
This book examines the sociocultural networks between the courts of early modern Italy and Europe, focusing on the Florentine Medici court, and the cultural patronage and international gendered networks developed by the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, V...Daugiau...
This book explores how the rich intersections between Italy and Spain during the early modern period resulted in a confluence of cultural ideals. This collection of essays by major scholars in the field explores how the rich interse...Daugiau...
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 exch...Daugiau...
