Table of Contents
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