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From Darkness to Light
Writers in Museums 1798-1898
Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
This book examines how philosophy was taught in the early modern period in Europe. It breaks new ground in a number of ways. Firstly, it seeks to bring text-based scholars in the history of philosophy together with social and cultural historians to examine the interaction between tradition and innovation in the early modern classroom, the site where traditional views of the world were transmitted to the generation that was to give birth to modern philosophy and science. Secondly, it draws together scholars who are centered on ideas and words with other scholars who focus on the role of images in the classroom and the intellectual world in this central period of history. The volume advances our understanding of how philosophy was understood and transmitted in this rich and crucial era. The principal audience for Teaching Philosophy are historians of science, philosophy, art, visual culture, and print culture. The chapters are written in a tone accessible to upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. It also reaches non-specialist readers interested in subjects including the “scientific revolution,” the organization of information, and Renaissance and Baroque visual art.
Bravura
The first major history of the bravura movement in European painting The painterly style known as bravura emerged in sixteenth-century Venice and spread throughout Europe during the seventeenth century. While earlier artistic movements presented a polished image of the artist by downplaying the creative process, bravura celebrated a painter’s distinct materials, virtuosic execution, and theatrical showmanship. This resulted in the further development of innovative techniques and a popular understanding of the artist as a weapon-wielding acrobat, impetuous wunderkind, and daring rebel. In Bravura, Nicola Suthor offers the first in-depth consideration of bravura as an artistic and cultural p...
Emblems and the Natural World
Since its invention by Andrea Alciato, the emblem is inextricably connected to the natural world. Alciato and his followers drew massively their inspiration from it. For their information about nature, the emblem authors were greatly indebted to ancient natural history, the medieval bestiaries, and the 15th- and 16th-century proto-emblematics, especially the imprese. The natural world became the main topic of, for instance, Camerarius’s botanical and zoological emblem books, and also of the ‘applied’ emblematics in drawings and decorative arts. Animal emblems are frequently quoted by naturalists (Gesner, Aldrovandi). This interdisciplinary volume aims to address these multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying ideologies – scientific, artistic, literary, political and/or religious. Contributors: Alison Saunders, Anne Rolet, Marisa Bass, Bernhard Schirg, Maren Biederbick, Sabine Kalff, Christian Peters, Frederik Knegtel, Agnes Kusler, Aline Smeesters, Astrid Zenker, Tobias Bulang, Sonja Schreiner, Paul Smith, and Karl Enenkel.
Cittadini of Venice
In this volume Giulia Zanon sheds new light on our grasp of social hierarchy and the possibilities for social mobility in pre-modern Italy. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines deep archival research with a multitude of artistic and architectural artefacts, this work breaks new ground by contextualizing the part played by social relationships and the arts in publicly affirming and displaying the prestige of the middling sorts, the cittadini, in early modern Venice.
Jacopo Tintoretto: Identity, Practice, Meaning
Over the past twenty years or so it has finally been understood that Jacopo Tintoretto (1518/19-1594) is an old master of the very highest calibre, whose sharp visual intelligence and brilliant oil technique provides a match for any painter of any time. Based on papers given at a conference held at Keble College, Oxford, to mark the quincentenary of Tintoretto’s birth, this volume comprises ten new essays written by an international range of scholars that open many fresh perspectives on this remarkable Venetian painter. Reflecting current ‘hot spots’ in Tintoretto studies, and suggesting fruitful avenues for future research, chapters explore aspects of the artist’s professional and social identity; his graphic oeuvre and workshop practice; his secular and sacred works in their cultural context; and the emergent artistic personality of his painter-son Domenico. Building upon the opening-up of the Tintoretto phenomenon to less fixed or partial viewpoints in recent years, this volume reveals the great master’s painting practice as excitingly experimental, dynamic, open-ended, and original.
Der Wald in der Frühen Neuzeit zwischen Erfahrung und Erfindung
Waldbilder der Frühen Neuzeit sind häufig als Ausdruck eines neuen Naturempfindens und als Vorbote einer romantischen Naturästhetik verstanden worden. Doch der Wald der Vormoderne war auch ein hart umkämpfter Wirtschaftsraum: Er lieferte den für die vormoderne Gesellschaft zentralen Rohstoff Holz und diente zugleich auch als Standort frühindustriellen Gewerbes, als Viehweide und Jagdgrund. Dieser Band fragt nach dem Verhältnis zwischen der intensiven ökonomischen Nutzung des Waldes und den neuen Formen seiner Ästhetisierung. Gegen die traditionelle Vorstellung, dass ein funktionales und ein ästhetisches Verhältnis zum Naturraum einander ausschließen, wird hier der transdisziplin...
Musik und Klimawandel
Was kann künstlerisches Handeln in Krisenzeiten bewirken? Und welche Reflexionspotentiale und Perspektiven bietet die Musikwissenschaft zu Fragen des Klimawandels an? Die Beiträge dokumentieren Fallstudien und Forschungszugänge aus verschiedenen Disziplinen. Dabei wird die Diversität, aber auch die Dringlichkeit einer wissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit musikbezogenen Aspekten vor dem Hintergrund von übergreifenden Krisentheorien deutlich. Empirisch, ethnografisch, historisch und systematisch zeichnen die Beiträger*innen die Relevanz derartiger Überlegungen für die musikalisch-künstlerische, aber auch wissenschaftliche Praxis nach – im Fokus stehen zum Beispiel die Felder Aktivismus, Pädagogik und Dramaturgie.
Venezia e Moby Dick
Ciascuno di noi ha in cuor suo un’idea di Venezia, proprio perché di questa straordinaria città non esiste e non può esistere una definizione esaustiva. Venezia è sgusciante e imprendibile, come un animale misterioso. L’idea di Cesare de Seta è che essa sia come Moby Dick, la balena bianca con cui Ahab mette in gioco il suo destino: un’inafferrabile città-destino, immersa nel Mediterraneo con i suoi tentacoli-isole. Un accostamento azzardato tra la magnifica città dei rii e dei campielli e il capolavoro di Melville? Provate allora a leggere – magari di notte, com’è accaduto all’autore di queste pagine – Moby Dick e a soffermarvi, nel capitolo intitolato Sulle raffiguraz...
Golgatha in den Konfessionen und Medien der Frühen Neuzeit
Die Fokussierung der reformatorischen Theologie auf den Brennpunkt des solus Christus und die mit dem Ansatz der theologia crucis einhergehende Konzentration auf den leidenden und sterbenden Sohn Gottes sowie die spätmittelalterliche und katholische Akzentuierung von Leidensmeditation, Reliquienverehrung, Schaufrömmigkeit und Eucharistie zeitigten in der Frühen Neuzeit facettenreiche Wirkungen. Dies gilt nicht nur innertheologisch im Hinblick auf die Predigt, die private pietas und die Meditationskultur, sondern auch bezüglich der Bildenden Kunst, der geistlichen Musik und der geistlichen Lyrik. Die heterogenen medialen Darstellungen der Kreuzigung Jesu folgten dabei nicht nur theologisc...
