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  • Language: en
  • Pages: 311

"Women, Patronage, and Salvation in Renaissance Florence "

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-07-05
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Long obfuscated by modern definitions of historical evidence and art patronage, Lucrezia Tornabuoni de? Medici?s impact on the visual world of her time comes to light in this book, the first full-length scholarly argument for a lay woman?s contributions to the visual arts of fifteenth-century Florence. This focused investigation of the Medici family?s domestic altarpiece, Filippo Lippi?s Adoration of the Christ Child, is broad in its ramifications. Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and power in which Lippi?s painting was originally embedded, author Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that women played little part in actively shaping visual culture during the Floren...

Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 173

Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany

The women profiled in these chapters come from diverse cultural, social, economic and spiritual backgrounds: from patrician heads of household to widows, from saints to artistic patrons, each of the women featured in this interdisciplinary study offers us fresh insight and a broader perspective on the position and role of female protagonists in the history of early modern Tuscany. Employing a variety of methodological approaches, and aided by new archival material, this volume examines women’s ordinary and extraordinary experiences through their writings, cultural and religious activities, social and political networks, and commercial endeavors. In so doing, the volume raises insightful questions about the scope of women’s accomplishments and provides new direction for the future study of women’s agency and self-fashioning.

Hybridity in Early Modern Art
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 191

Hybridity in Early Modern Art

  • Categories: Art

This collection of essays explores hybridity in early modern art through two primary lenses: hybrid media and hybrid time. The varied approaches in the volume to theories of hybridity reflect the increased presence in art historical scholarship of interdisciplinary frameworks that extend art historical inquiry beyond the single time or material. The essays engage with what happens when an object is considered beyond the point of origin or as a legend of information, the implications of the juxtaposition of disparate media, how the meaning of an object alters over time, and what the conspicuous use of out-of-date styles means for the patron, artist, and/or viewer. Essays examine both canonical and lesser-known works produced by European artists in Italy, northern Europe, and colonial Peru, ca. 1400–1600. The book will be of interest to art historians, visual culture historians, and early modern historians.

The Self in Black and White
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The Self in Black and White

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: UPNE

A study of race and authenticity in the photography of the civil rights era and beyond

Reading the Early Modern Passions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Reading the Early Modern Passions

How translatable is the language of the emotions across cultures and time? What connotations of particular emotions, strongly felt in the early modern period, have faded or shifted completely in our own? If Western culture has traditionally held emotion to be hostile to reason and the production of scientific knowledge, why and how have the passions been lauded as windows to higher truths? Assessing the changing discourses of feeling and their relevance to the cultural history of affect, Reading the Early Modern Passions offers fourteen interdisciplinary essays on the meanings and representations of the emotional universe of Renaissance Europe in literature, music, and art. Many in the early...

Inventing the Opera House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

Inventing the Opera House

This book examines the invention of the architecture of the modern opera house in Italy between the late fifteenth and late seventeenth centuries.

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 576

A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance

This volume brings together some of the most exciting renaissance scholars to suggest new ways of thinking about the period and to set a new series of agendas for Renaissance scholarship. Overturns the idea that it was a period of European cultural triumph and highlights the negative as well as the positive. Looks at the Renaissance from a world, as opposed to just European, perspective. Views the Renaissance from perspectives other than just the cultural elite. Gender, sex, violence, and cultural history are integrated into the analysis.

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

The Mirror, the Window, and the Telescope

  • Categories: Art

Edgerton shows how linear perspective emerged in early fifteenth-century Florence out of an artistic and religious context in which devout Christians longed for divine presence in their daily lives and ultimately undermined medieval Christian cosmology.

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Architecture, Islam, and Identity in West Africa shows you the relationship between architecture and Islamic identity in West Africa. The book looks broadly across Muslim West Africa and takes an in-depth study of the village of Larabanga, a small Muslim community in Northern Ghana, to help you see how the built environment encodes cultural history through form, material, and space, creating an architectural narrative that outlines the contours of this distinctive Muslim identity. Apotsos explores how modern technology, heritage, and tourism have increasingly affected the contemporary architectural character of this community, revealing the village’s current state of social, cultural, and spiritual flux. More than 60 black and white images illustrate how architectural components within this setting express the distinctive narratives, value systems, and realities that make up the unique composition of this Afro-Islamic community.

Late Medieval Italian Art and Its Contexts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

Late Medieval Italian Art and Its Contexts

Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work.