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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bohn, Babette.
- Series:
- Blackwell Companions to Art History Series
- Blackwell Companions to Art History Series ; v.29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (690 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Defining the Subject
- Scope and Content
- Historiography
- Conclusion
- Part 1: The Context
- 1 A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy
- Corporate Patronage, Sacred and Secular
- Patronage by Individuals and Families
- Papal and Curial Patronage
- 2 Judaism and the Arts in Early Modern Europe
- Art and Jewish Religious Life
- Grotesque Images of Degradation
- Christian and Jewish Relations Inside and Outside the Ghetto
- 3 Religion, Politics, and Art in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
- Thirteenth Century: Mendicants and their Influence
- Fourteenth Century: The Virgin as Queen of Siena
- Fifteenth Century: The Franciscan Message Appropriated
- Fifteenth Century: Papal Authority Underscored
- Sixteenth Century: Artistic Imagination versus the Church
- 4 Europe's Global Vision
- The Americas
- Asia/East Indies
- The Muslim World and the Middle East
- Conclusion: Europe's Global Iconography
- 5 Italian Art and the North
- The Opposition of the Natural and the Ideal
- Copying as Artistic Training and the Canon of Ancient Sculpture
- Travel and Patronage
- Italian Collectors' Receptivity to Northern Art
- Italian Artists' Responses to Northern Art
- Contacts across the Alps
- The Critical Response
- Suggestions for Further Study
- 6 The Desiring Eye
- Mars and Samson: The Heterosexual Male Ideal
- Venus, Eve, and Mary: The Heterosexual Woman
- Ganymede and Sebastian: The Homosexual Male
- Diana and the Witch: Lesbian Women
- Conclusion: The Splitting Image
- Part 2: The Artist
- 7 The Artist as Genius
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- 8 Drawing in Renaissance Italy
- Materials and Techniques
- Drawing Types and Functions.
- Drawing as Invention
- Collecting of Drawings
- 9 Self-Portraiture 1400-1700
- Witness and Participant
- Origins of the Autonomous Self-Portrait
- Albrecht Dürer
- Painters as Painters
- The Seventeenth Century
- From Courtier to Artist
- Rembrandt
- Toward the Modern Autonomous Painter
- 10 Recasting the Role of the Italian Sculptor
- Purposes of Sculpture
- Materials and Methods
- Antiquity's Role in the Evolution of Sculpture
- Patronage
- Invenzione
- 11 From Oxymoron to Virile Paintbrush
- Italian Artists
- Northern Europe
- Part 3: The Object
- 12 The Birth of Mass Media
- Techniques
- Woodcuts
- Book Illustrations and Printed Books
- Engravings
- Etchings
- Paper
- Printing on Demand
- Subjects
- Print Collections
- What was a Print?
- 13 The Material Culture of Family Life in Italy and Beyond
- Conclusions
- 14 Tapestry
- The Costliness of Tapestry
- France and the Low Countries, 1380-1510
- Brussels Renaissance Tapestry, 1510-70
- Flemish Producers and Designers in Europe, 1570-1620/30
- Brussels and Parisian Baroque Tapestry, 1620-60
- Brussels, Paris, and Beauvais, 1660-1750
- 15 The New Sciences and the Visual Arts
- Painting the Heavens
- Medicine and Embodied Knowledge
- Natural History and the Limits of Visual Information
- Emergent Theories of Color
- 16 Seeing Through Renaissance and Baroque Paintings
- First Case Study: X-radiography and Poussin
- Second Case Study: Autoradiography and La Tour
- Third Case Study: Infrared Reflectography and Bouts
- Fourth Case Study: Infrared Reflectography, Gas Chromatography, Polarizing Light Microscopy, X-radiography, and Fernando Gallego
- Fifth Case Study: Infrared Reflectography and Michelangelo
- Sixth Case Study: X-radiography and Titian
- Part 4: The Message.
- 17 Iconography in Renaissance and Baroque Art
- The Iconography of St. Peter: A Case in Point
- Other Saints
- Biblical Narratives: Crucifixions and Annunciations
- Disguised Symbolism
- Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting
- Iconology and Allegory
- 18 Renaissance Landscapes
- Origins: Landscapes as Settings in Fourteenth-Century Painting
- Landscape in Early Netherlandish Painting
- The World Landscape of the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands
- German Landscapes and the Danube School
- The Venetian Landscape
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Traditions of Netherlandish Landscape
- Dutch and Flemish Landscape 1590-1650
- Dutch Landscapes 1650-1700
- The Classical Landscape
- 19 The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art
- Sacred Nudity
- New Media
- The Netherlandish Fifteenth-Century Nude
- The Female Nude in Italy
- Nude Portraits
- Michelangelo
- The Female Nude in Sixteenth-Century Northern Europe
- The Scandal of the Last Judgment
- 20 Genre Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe
- The Early Seventeenth Century (ca. 1600-40)
- The Middle of the Seventeenth Century (ca. 1640-70)
- The Late Seventeenth Century (ca. 1670-ca. 1700)
- 21 The Meaning of the European Painted Portrait, 1400-1650
- The Single Figure
- Pendant Portraits
- Group Portraits
- 22 All the World's a Stage
- The Philosophical Foundations of the Renaissance Theatrum Mundi
- Evocations of the Theater in Renaissance Architectural Theory and Practice
- Performance Spaces of the Early Renaissance
- The Theater Conceit in Villa Architecture and Decoration
- The Baroque Era
- 23 Intensity and Orthodoxy in Iberian and Hispanic Art of the Tridentine Era, 1550-1700
- Church Reform in Spain
- Art after the Council of Trent
- Iconography
- The Religious Orders.
- Art in Daily Life
- Additional Participatory Elements
- Devotion to the Virgin
- Secular Arts
- Part 5: The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian
- 24 Historians of Northern European Art
- Establishing the Canon
- Writing History and Defining Oeuvres
- Nationalism and the Rise of Art History
- Methodological Trends
- 25 Artistic Biography in Italy
- 26 With a Critical Eye: Painting and Theory in France, 1600-43
- Morality and Presence in Vouet's Italian Period: What Natural Subjects Demand
- Vouet and the Light Manner
- Poussin in Paris
- Décor and Decorum: Poussin's The Miracle of St. Francis Xavier
- 27 The Italian Piazza
- The Problem of Periodization
- The Textual Construction of the Piazza
- Theatrum Mundi
- "Quel gran teatro attorno la piazza"52
- Conclusion: The Embodied Piazza
- 28 Building in Theory and Practice
- Architectural Books before Printing: The Example of Vitruvius
- Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) and the First Printed Architectural Book
- Manuscript Architectural Treatises after Alberti: The Real and the Ideal
- Images and Text in Printed Architectural Books
- Standard Deviations: The Orders in Architectural Books
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bohn, Babette A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art
- ISBN:
- 9781118391518
- OCLC:
- 842857025
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