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The Paintings of Quinten Massys with Catalogue Raisonné
"Quinten Massys (1466-1530) was one of the most important painters of the Netherlandish school. He was born in Louvain but entered the St. Luke guild of painters in Antwerp in 1491. Maker of altarpieces for both local guilds and confraternities, exporter of altapieces to both kings and merchants in Portugal and Germany, portraitist of both scholars and prosperous burghers, and one of the first important painters of secular subjects, Massys managed to produce examples of every kind of picture known to the Netherlands of his day." -- dust jacket.
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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration
This volume serves as an introduction to a rich and as yet under-explored period in the history of women’s ideas. The volume provides a partial insight into the richness and complexity of women’s political ideas in the centuries prior to the French Revolution. The essays in this collection examine women’s political writings with particular reference to the themes of virtue (especially the virtue of phronesis or prudence), liberty, and toleration.
Early Modern Visual Culture
An interdisciplinary group of scholars applies the reinterpretive concept of "visual culture" to the English Renaissance. Bringing attention to the visual issues that have appeared persistently, though often marginally, in the newer criticisms of the last decade, the authors write in a diversity of voices on a range of subjects. Common among them, however, is a concern with the visual technologies that underlie the representation of the body, of race, of nation, and of empire. Several essays focus on the construction and representation of the human body—including an examination of anatomy as procedure and visual concept, and a look at early cartographic practice to reveal the correspondenc...
The Artist as Reader
Based on the history of knowledge, the contributions to this volume elucidate various aspects of how, in the early modern period, artists’ education, knowledge, reading and libraries were related to the ways in which they presented themselves
