Many books published in the years between 1550 and 1660 had an elaborate engraved title-page. The Comely Frontispiece (1979) selects title-pages which represent theology, philosophy, history, poetry, medicine and explains that these pages were not m...Lasīt vairāk
This book argues that painter Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-1479) is a formative cross-cultural figure in the practice of art history itself....Lasīt vairāk
Women, Fertility and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal womens crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe. It appeals to both students and scholars in field of Art History, Renaiss...Lasīt vairāk
The essays in this volume concentrate on festival iconography, the visual and written languages, including ephemeral and permanent structures, costume, drama, inscriptions and published festival books that voiced the social, political and cultural m...Lasīt vairāk
Louis XIV Outside In introduces current interests in cultural history, integrating aspects of artistic, literary and musical themes. In particular it examines the formulation and use of images of Louis XIV abroad, concentrating on Louis neighbours...Lasīt vairāk
Through archival documents, pictorial and historical accounts, literature, and correspondence, as well as cultural artefacts such as paintings, jewellery, and garments, this volume examines the impact of Habsburg royal women in the broader historica...Lasīt vairāk
Firmly grounded in archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in the country during the period, which until now has been erroneously characterized as close to non-exist...Lasīt vairāk
The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the worlds foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarsh...Lasīt vairāk
The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At i...Lasīt vairāk
Positing Medici womens patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixte...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the role of the architectural façade as an indicator of individual and communal cultural identities, focusing on a residence of a conquistador rather than religious and monarchial structures....Lasīt vairāk
This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their physical context, and to their social, political and cultural environment....Lasīt vairāk
Arboreal Symbolism in European Art, 13001800 probes the significance of trees in religious iconography of Western art. This book will interest scholars in art history, religion, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies....Lasīt vairāk
This book brings a new perspective to secular music sources from the Middle Ages and early modernity by viewing them as media communication tools, whose particular features shape the meaning of their contents. The chapters offer innovative insights...Lasīt vairāk
The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop....Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about and why they were so popular....Lasīt vairāk
Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past....Lasīt vairāk
This is an analysis of the diverse facets of Alexander the Greats image from the Renaissance era through the Baroque into the nineteenth century....Lasīt vairāk
This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of the origin of Mannerism as being grounded in sixteenth-century spirituality....Lasīt vairāk
