A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art (eBook)

Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow (Herausgeber)

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2013
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-39150-1 (ISBN)

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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 

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.

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

"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)

"An enlightening and enabling companion to the study of
Renaissance and Baroque art history from the classic heartland of
the discipline to the latest frontiers."

- Joseph Connors, Harvard University

"Focusing on the Renaissance and Baroque periods, this
collection demonstrates for scholars and students alike where art
history has been and where it is going."

- David G. Wilkins, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art and
Architecture, University of Pittsburg

"The editors have gathered some of the best-known scholars
of Renaissance and Baroque art history to create a vibrant picture
of contemporary thinking about Early Modern art, in a collection
usefully organized by categories of particular interest
today."

- Mary D. Garrard, Professor Emerita, American
University

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2013
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Art History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Art History
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Art History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Schlagworte: Art & Applied Arts • Barock • European art, scholarship, reference, essays, sexuality and gender in the Renaissance, material culture, Renaissance artists, Artistic Production during the Renaissance, Italian Renaissance, Early Modern Art, Baroque art, Western Art History, European Renaissance Art, 17th-century European Art, History of Prints, History of Italian Drawings, History of Architecture, Art History, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Rubens, Vermeer, Duccio, Chaucer, Valezquez, Newton, Giotto, Northern Renaissance Art, • Kunst der Renaissance • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • Renaissance • Renaissance Art
• ISBN-10: 1-118-39150-0 / 1118391500
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-39150-1 / 9781118391501