Art & Visual Culture

Interdisciplinary in scope, this book constitutes the first overview of the development of early modern papal funeral apparati, the temporary decorations used during the funeral masses in St Peter’s. Drawing from a range of unpublished sources, the author shows how the papal apparati functioned with..

By examining their production practices in a variety of genres-including manuscript illustration, glass painting and staining, tapestry manufacture, portrait painting, and engraving-this book explores how Netherlandish artists migrating to England in the early modern period overcame challenges raise..

By examining their production practices in a variety of genres-including manuscript illustration, glass painting and staining, tapestry manufacture, portrait painting, and engraving-this book explores how Netherlandish artists migrating to England in the early modern period overcame challenges raise..

A fresh interpretation of Fragonard's "figures de fantaisie," Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting the Imagination reconnects Fragonard's paintings with a neglected tradition of fantasy figures in European art, and situates them within the cultural and aesthetic contexts of eighteenth-century ..

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere as ’uninhabited’, empty space. This collection, spanning the eighteenth century to the present, recasts the..

Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere as ’uninhabited’, empty space. This collection, spanning the eighteenth century to the present, recasts the..

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

The first monograph to appear in English on the Last Supper frescoes in Quattrocento Florence, this study examines the effect of gender on the contextualized perceptions of the male and female religious who viewed the Florentine Last Supper images. Using archival, literary and cultural sources, and ..

What are the key moments in the genealogy of the Western image which might illuminate the present status of the image? And what exactly is the situation to which we have arrived as far as the image is concerned? These are the questions guiding the reflections in this book. The book examines images f..

Exploring the rich variety of pictorial rhetoric in northern European genre images, this volume deepens our understanding of genre's place in early modern visual culture. Via a variety of approaches, authors detail genre's multivalent relations to older, more established pictorial and literary categ..