Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow

Comp Renaissance and Baroque A

Herausgeber: Bohn, Babette; Arnold, Dana; Saslow, James M

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Art History .
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1289g
• ISBN-13: 9781444337266
• ISBN-10: 1444337262
• Artikelnr.: 36151176

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface/Acknowledgments Introduction Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow,
Co-Editors Part 1. The Context: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic
Production 1. A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy Sheryl Reiss
2. Judaism and the Arts in Early Modern Europe: Jewish and Christian
Encounters Shelley Perlove 3. Religion, Politics and Art in Late Medieval
and Renaissance Italy Julia I. Miller 4. Europe's Global Vision Larry
Silver 5. Italian Art and the North: Exchanges, Critical Reception, and
Identity, 1400-1700 Amy Golahny 6. The Desiring Eye: Gender, Sexuality, and
Visual Art James M. Saslow Part 2. The Artist: Creative Process and Social
Stature 7. The Artist as Genius William E. Wallace 8. Drawing in
Renaissance Italy Mary Vaccaro 9. Self-portraiture 1400-1700 H. Perry
Chapman 10. Recasting the Role of the Italian Sculptor: Sculptors, Patrons,
Materials, and Principles for the New Early Modern Age Elinor Richter
11. From Oxymoron to Virile Paintbrush: Women Artists in Early Modern
Europe Babette Bohn Part 3. The Object: Art as Material Culture 12. The
Birth of Mass Media: Printmaking in Early Modern Europe Alison Stewart 13.
The Material Culture of Family Life in Italy and Beyond Jacqueline Marie
Musacchio 14. Tapestry: Luxurious Art, Collaborative Industry Koenraad
Brosens 15. The New Sciences and the Visual Arts Eileen Reeves 16. Seeing
Through Renaissance and Baroque Paintings: Case Studies Claire Barry Part
4. The Message: Subjects and Meanings 17. Iconography in Renaissance and
Baroque Art Mark Zucker 18. Renaissance Landscapes: Discovering the World
and Human Nature Lawrence O. Goedde 19. The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art
Thomas Martin 20. Genre painting in Seventeenth-century Europe Wayne
Franits 21. The Meaning of the European Painted Portrait, 1400-1650 Joanna
Woods-Marsden 22. All the World's a Stage: The Theater Conceit in Early
Modern Italy Inge Reist 23. Intensity and Orthodoxy in Iberian and Hispanic
Art of the Tridentine Era, 1550-1700 Marcus Burke Part 5. The Viewer, the
Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural
Discourse 24. Historians of Northern European Art: from Johann Neudörfer
and Karel Van Mander to the Rembrandt Research Project Jeffrey Chipps Smith
25. Artistic Biography in Italy: Vasari to Malvasia David Cast 26. With a
Critical Eye: Painting and Theory in France, 1600-1643. The Case of Simon
Vouet and Nicolas Poussin Joseph L. Forte 27. The Double Life of the
Italian Piazza: Between Art Historical Monument and Social Phenomenon Niall
Atkinson 28. Building in Theory and Practice: Writing about Architecture in
the Renaissance Carolyn Yerkes