A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art
Blackwell Companions to Art History
1. Edition February 2013
648 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art presents a comprehensive collection of interdisciplinary essays that address major aspects of European visual arts produced from approximately 1300 to 1700. Featuring original contributions by an international roster of scholars from various disciplines, essays explore how art interacts with the cultural paradigms of this explosive time: the interface between art and religion, art and science, and gender and sexuality to name a few. This volume combines an unprecedented breadth of coverage and depth of scholarship with lucid and accessible writing.
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
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
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.
