Art & Visual Culture

Drawing on a wide range of visual and historical sources, this study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century. Erin Campbell argues that these i..

This collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the images, and in other cases, we are encouraged by the context of exhibition not to look at images. Contributors discuss an array of images—..

This collection demonstrates that even though we live in an image-saturated culture, many images do not look at what they claim, viewers often do not look at the images, and in other cases, we are encouraged by the context of exhibition not to look at images. Contributors discuss an array of images—..

Can contemporary art say anything about spirituality? Answering this question and more, On the Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art explores the curious disconnection between spirituality and current art...

Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The collection offers a comprehensive analysis of imagery featuring a wide range of marginalized types including Jews, roguish beggars, b..

Others and Outcasts in Early Modern Europe is the first book to focus directly on the visual representation of marginal and outcast people in early modern Europe. The collection offers a comprehensive analysis of imagery featuring a wide range of marginalized types including Jews, roguish beggars, b..

Ottonian Imperial Art and Portraiture represents the first art historical consideration of the patronage of the Ottonian Emperors Otto III (983-1002) and Henry II (1002-1024)...

Before Modernism, narrative painting was one of the most acclaimed and challenging modes of picture-making in Western art, yet by the early twentieth century storytelling had all but disappeared from ambitious art. France was a key player in both the dramatic rise and the controversial demise of nar..

A long overdue re-assessment of the Neapolitan painter Paolo de Matteis, this volume examines the artist’s most significant works and shows how posterity’s impression of him has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition...

A long overdue re-assessment of the Neapolitan painter Paolo de Matteis, this volume examines the artist’s most significant works and shows how posterity’s impression of him has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition. More than just a novel approach to de Matteis, however, ..

This title was first published in 2001: Paolo Veronese: Piety and display in an age of religious reform examines the large body of religious paintings with which Veronese (1528 -1588) played a crucial role in shaping Venetian piety. Richard Cocke sets Veronese’s work into context, arguing his master..

This book explores the Victorians through their materiality, and asks how objects were part of being Victorian, and how reading the Victorians through their possessions, can deepen our understanding of Victorian culture. This interdisciplinary collection looks at the historical, cultural and literar..