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Visual cultures of secrecy in early modern Europe / edited by Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early modern studies series ; Volume 11.
- Early modern studies ; Volume 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Secrecy in art.
- Arts and society--Europe.
- Arts and society.
- Arts, European--Themes, motives.
- Arts, European.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (250 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2013]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers' shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers' tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge.The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.
- Contents:
- The visual dynamics of (un)veiling in early modern culture / Patricia Simons
- On the skins of goats and sheep: (un)masking the secrets of nature in early modern popular culture / William Eamon
- Secrecy and the production of signorial space: the Coretto of Torrechiara / Timothy McCall
- Michelangelo's open secrets / Maria Ruvoldt
- Hebrew, hieroglyphs, and the secrets of divine wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino's devotional paintings / Giancarlo Fiorenza
- A secret space for a secret keeper: Cardinal Bibbiena at the Vatican Palace / Henry Dietrich Fernández
- Networks of urban secrecy: tamburi, anonymous denunciations, and the production of the gaze in fifteenth-century Florence / Allie Terry
- Tricks of the trade: the technical secrets of early engraving / Sean Roberts
- The alchemical womb: Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum microcosmicum / Lyle Massey.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-271-09114-2
- 1-61248-093-4
- OCLC:
- 857770003
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