A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history. Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to 1700 Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message: Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and gender, and the art and production of tapestries, conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in the book

A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides adiverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essaysaddressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modernhistory.* Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from artexperts that address various aspects of European visual artsproduced from circa 1300 to 1700* Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-HistoricalFactors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Statureof the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message:Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and theHistorian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse* Covers many topics not typically included in collections ofthis nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatisesthe global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and thearts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality* Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality andgender, and the art and production of tapestriesconservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater* Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory'sinteractions with neighboring civilizations and distantdiscoveries* Includes illustrations as well as links to images not includedin the book

Contributors viiiPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiIntroduction 1Babette Bohn and James M. SaslowPart 1 The Context: Social-Historical Factors in ArtisticProduction 211 A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy 23Sheryl E. Reiss2 Judaism and the Arts in Early Modern Europe: Jewish andChristian Encounters 44Shelley Perlove3 Religion, Politics, and Art in Late Medieval and RenaissanceItaly 65Julia I. Miller4 Europe's Global Vision 85Larry Silver5 Italian Art and the North: Exchanges, Critical Reception, andIdentity, 1400-1700 106Amy Golahny6 The Desiring Eye: Gender, Sexuality, and the Visual Arts127James M. SaslowPart 2 The Artist: Creative Process and Social Status1497 The Artist as Genius 151William E. Wallace8 Drawing in Renaissance Italy 168Mary Vaccaro9 Self-Portraiture 1400-1700 189H. Perry Chapman10 Recasting the Role of the Italian Sculptor: SculptorsPatrons, Materials, and Principles for the New Early Modern Age210Elinor M. Richter11 From Oxymoron to Virile Paintbrush: Women Artists in EarlyModern Europe 229Babette BohnPart 3 The Object: Art as Material Culture 25112 The Birth of Mass Media: Printmaking in Early Modern Europe253Alison G. Stewart13 The Material Culture of Family Life in Italy and Beyond275Jacqueline Marie Musacchio14 Tapestry: Luxurious Art, Collaborative Industry 295Koenraad Brosens15 The New Sciences and the Visual Arts 316Eileen Reeves16 Seeing Through Renaissance and Baroque Paintings: CaseStudies 336Claire BarryPart 4 The Message: Subjects and Meanings 35917 Iconography in Renaissance and Baroque Art 361Mark Zucker18 Renaissance Landscapes: Discovering the World and HumanNature 381Lawrence O. Goedde19 The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art 402Thomas Martin20 Genre Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe 422Wayne Franits21 The Meaning of the European Painted Portrait, 1400-1650442Joanna Woods-Marsden22 All the World's a Stage: The Theater Conceit in EarlyModern Italy 463Inge Jackson Reist23 Intensity and Orthodoxy in Iberian and Hispanic Art of theTridentine Era, 1550-1700 484Marcus B. BurkePart 5 The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Receptionand Interpretation as Cultural Discourse 50524 Historians of Northern European Art: From JohannNeudörfer and Karel van Mander to the Rembrandt ResearchProject 507Jeffrey Chipps Smith25 Artistic Biography in Italy: Vasari to Malvasia 525David Cast26 With a Critical Eye: Painting and Theory in France1600-43 The Case of Simon Vouet and Nicolas Poussin 541Joseph C. Forte27 The Italian Piazza: From Gothic Footnote to Baroque Theater561Niall Atkinson28 Building in Theory and Practice: Writing about Architecturein the Renaissance 582Carolyn YerkesIndex 602