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Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600

Michelangelo's Nose - A Myth and Its Maker (Paperback): Paul Barolsky Michelangelo's Nose - A Myth and Its Maker (Paperback)
Paul Barolsky
R1,141 Discovery Miles 11 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An exploration of the ways in which Michelangelo created himself.

Monumentale Stuckfiguren in Roemischen Dekorationssystemen Des Cinquecento (Paperback): Susanne Evers Monumentale Stuckfiguren in Roemischen Dekorationssystemen Des Cinquecento (Paperback)
Susanne Evers
R3,613 Discovery Miles 36 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Die Untersuchung beschaftigt sich mit Entstehung, Entwicklung und Aufgaben plastisch-figurlicher Stuckdekoration in Rom. Die fruhesten Beispiele fur die im 17. Jahrhundert weit verbreiteten monumentalen Stuckfiguren finden sich bereits in der ersten Halfte des 16. Jahrhunderts. Als Geburtsstatte darf die Sala Regia im Vatikan angesehen werden. Hier entstand eine Fulle von Figuren unter direktem Einfluss von Michelangelos plastischem Schaffen. Anhand exemplarisch ausgewahlter Dekorationen werden die Entwicklungsschritte bis hin zu fruhbarocken Ausstattungen aufgezeigt, die eine wichtige Grundlage fur die Kunstauffassung Gianlorenzo Berninis bilden. So kann ein Bogen geschlagen werden von Michelangelo zu Bernini, der Aufschlusse uber die Genese der barocken Skulptur zulasst."

The Painter's Practice - How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (Paperback, Revised): James Cahill The Painter's Practice - How Artists Lived and Worked in Traditional China (Paperback, Revised)
James Cahill
R1,555 Discovery Miles 15 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In "The Painter's Practice," James Cahill reveals the intricacies of the painter's life with respect to payment and patronage--an approach that is still largely absent from the study of East Asian art. Drawing upon such unofficial archival sources as diaries and letters, Cahill challenges the traditional image of the disinterested amateur scholar-artist, unconcerned with material rewards, that has been developed by China's literati, perpetuated in conventional biographies, and abetted by the artists themselves. His work fills in the hitherto unexplored social and economic contexts in which painters worked, revealing the details of how painters in China actually made their living from the sixteenth century onward. Considering the marketplace as well as the studio, Cahill reviews the practices and working conditions of artists outside the Imperial Court such as the employment of assistants and the use of sketchbooks and prints by earlier artists for sources of motifs. As loose, flamboyant brushwork came into vogue, Cahill argues, these highly imitable styles ironically facilitated the forger's task, flooding the market with copies, sometimes commissioned and signed by the artists themselves. In tracing the great shift from seeing the painting as a picture to a concentration on the painter's hand, Cahill challenges the archetype of the scholar-artist and provides an enlightened perspective that profoundly changes the way we interpret familiar paintings.

Johan Gregor van der Schardt (Hardcover): Hanne Honnens De Lichtenberg Johan Gregor van der Schardt (Hardcover)
Hanne Honnens De Lichtenberg
R1,677 R1,468 Discovery Miles 14 680 Save R209 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Johan Gregor van der Schardt

Visual Variety and Spatial Grandeur - A Study of the Transition from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century in France... Visual Variety and Spatial Grandeur - A Study of the Transition from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth Century in France (Paperback)
John F. Winter
R863 Discovery Miles 8 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An analysis of how visual variety and grandeur are intrinsic and artistically well-conceived elements of the work of Rabelais, and that they develop naturally from the Renaissance outlook on the world.

Centuries of Silence | Des siecles de silence - The Discovery of the Salzinnes Antiphonal | La decouverte de lantiphonaire de... Centuries of Silence | Des siecles de silence - The Discovery of the Salzinnes Antiphonal | La decouverte de lantiphonaire de Salzinnes (French, Paperback)
Judith Dietz
R1,022 Discovery Miles 10 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Shadows of Time - Giambologna, Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel (Paperback): Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Shadows of Time - Giambologna, Michelangelo and the Medici Chapel (Paperback)
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
R1,191 R953 Discovery Miles 9 530 Save R238 (20%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Giambologna (1529 - 1606) is regarded as the most important European sculptor between Michelangelo and Bernini. How did he achieve this status? This volume investigates this question and examines above all Giambologna's study of Michelangelo, his all-powerful role model, and how he successfully prevailed. The young Flemish artist Giambologna most probably embarked on his study trip to Rome in 1550. On his way home he visited Florence, decided to stay and became the star at the Medici court. They sent his sculptures to the princely courts of Europe, where they became sought-after gifts. Although we know a great deal about his success, we know little of his early years in Italy, because he first appeared on the scene as a sculptor from about 1560. The alabaster figures after Michelangelo's "Times of Day" in Dresden, hitherto largely ignored, seem to be early works by the master sculptor. An examination of these sculptures promises to shed fresh light on the development of a genius.

The Art of Allusion - Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 (Hardcover): Sonja Drimmer The Art of Allusion - Illuminators and the Making of English Literature, 1403-1476 (Hardcover)
Sonja Drimmer
R1,730 Discovery Miles 17 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the end of the fourteenth and into the first half of the fifteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and John Lydgate translated and revised stories with long pedigrees in Latin, Italian, and French. Royals and gentry alike commissioned lavish manuscript copies of these works, copies whose images were integral to the rising prestige of English as a literary language. Yet despite the significance of these images, manuscript illuminators are seldom discussed in the major narratives of the development of English literary culture. The newly enlarged scale of English manuscript production generated a problem: namely, a need for new images. Not only did these images need to accompany narratives that often had no tradition of illustration, they also had to express novel concepts, including ones as foundational as the identity and suitable representation of an English poet. In devising this new corpus, manuscript artists harnessed visual allusion as a method to articulate central questions and provide at times conflicting answers regarding both literary and cultural authority. Sonja Drimmer traces how, just as the poets embraced intertexuality as a means of invention, so did illuminators devise new images through referential techniques—assembling, adapting, and combining images from a range of sources in order to answer the need for a new body of pictorial matter. Featuring more than one hundred illustrations, twenty-seven of them in color, The Art of Allusion is the first book devoted to the emergence of England's literary canon as a visual as well as a linguistic event.

Caravaggio - Fashion and Fabrics (Italian, English, Paperback): Francesco Gonzales, Tom Foakes, Flavia Fiori Caravaggio - Fashion and Fabrics (Italian, English, Paperback)
Francesco Gonzales, Tom Foakes, Flavia Fiori
R626 R539 Discovery Miles 5 390 Save R87 (14%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The historic textile collections belonging to the Diocese of Novara and preserved within the ancient sacristies of its many churches, have inspired the volume Caravaggio: Fashion and Fabrics. Caravaggio's ability to capture in paint such precious garments, with their shimmering weaves, arabesque-like patterns and decorative motifs informs a new narrative, exploring how clothing may indicate much more than a mere fashion choice. Using Caravaggio's The Cardsharps as the focus, we may understand how the three figures depicted are set in contrast: by social class, age and appearance. These differences are underpinned by the clothing that they wear, and on closer examination, it is apparent that the fabrics described in paint are directly comparable to those of the historic collections of Novara. In their insightful and detailed analysis, the authors of this volume present a comprehensive overview of the development of fashion and fabrics, from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, when Italy's textile industry was at its peak. Text in English and Italian.

The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art (Hardcover, New Ed): Andaleeb Badiee Banta The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art (Hardcover, New Ed)
Andaleeb Badiee Banta
R4,945 Discovery Miles 49 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Venetian artistic giants of the sixteenth century, such as Giorgione, Vittore Carpaccio, Titian, Jacopo Sansovino, Jacopo Tintoretto, Paolo Veronese, and their contemporaries, continued to shape artistic development, tastes in collecting, and modes of display long after their own practices ended. The robust reverberation of the Venetian Renaissance spread far beyond the borders of the lagoon to inform and influence artists, authors, and collectors who spent very little or even no time in Venice proper. The Enduring Legacy of Venetian Renaissance Art investigates the historical resonance of Venetian sixteenth-century art and explores its afterlife and its reinvention by artists working in its shadow. Despite being a frequently acknowledged truism, the pervasive legacy of Venetian sixteenth-century art has not received comprehensive treatment in recent publication history. The broad scope of the topics covered in these essays, from Titian's profound influence on the development of landscape painting to the effects of Carpaccio's historical paintings on early twentieth-century fashion, illustrates the persistence and adaptability of the Venetian Renaissance's legacy. In addition to analyzing the effects of individual artists on each other, this volume offers insight into the shifting characterizations and reception of Venice as a center for artistic innovation and inspiration throughout the early modern period, providing a nuanced and multifaceted view of the singular lagoon city and its indelible imprint on the history of art.

In the Courts of Religious Ladies - Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents (Hardcover): Giancarla Periti In the Courts of Religious Ladies - Art, Vision, and Pleasure in Italian Renaissance Convents (Hardcover)
Giancarla Periti
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This fascinating study considers the poetic and mythological artworks made for elite female monastic communities in Renaissance Italy. Nuns from the patrician class, who often disregarded obligations of austerity and poverty, commissioned sensually appealing, richly made artifacts inspired by contemporary courtly culture. The works of art transformed monastic parlors, abbatial apartments, and nuns' cells into ornate settings, thereby enriching and complicating the opposition of religious and worldly spheres. This unconventional monastic and yet courtly decoration was a new form of art in the way it entangled the sacred and the profane. The artwork was intended to edify both intellectually and spiritually, as well as to delight and seduce the viewer. Based on extensive new research into primary sources, this generously illustrated book introduces a thriving female monastic visual culture that ecclesiastical authorities endeavored to suppress. It shows how this art taught its viewers to use their eyes to gain insights about the secular world beyond the convent walls.

Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus - Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture... Leon Battista Alberti and Nicholas Cusanus - Towards an Epistemology of Vision for Italian Renaissance Art and Culture (Hardcover, New Ed)
Charles H. Carman
R4,188 Discovery Miles 41 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti's text On Painting (1435), along with comparisons to various works of Nicholas Cusanus - particularly his Vision of God (1450) - this study reveals a shared epistemology of vision. And, the author argues, it is one that reflects a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal than is typically accorded Alberti. Whether regarding his purpose in teaching the use of a geometric single point perspective system, or more broadly in rendering forms naturalistically, the emphasis leans toward the ideal of Renaissance art as highly rational. There remains the impression that the principle aim of the painter is to create objective, even illusionistic images. A close reading of Alberti's text, however, including some adjustments in translation, points rather towards an emphasis on discerning the spiritual in the material. Alberti's use of the tropes Minerva and Narcissus, for example, indicates the opposing characteristics of wisdom and sense certainty that function dialectically to foster the traditional importance of seeing with the eye of the intellect rather than merely with physical eyes. In this sense these figures also set the context for his, and, as the author explains, Brunelleschi's earlier invention of this perspective system that posits not so much an objective seeing as an opposition of finite and infinite seeing, which, moreover, approximates Cusanus's famous notion of a coincidence of opposites. Together with Alberti's and Cusanus's ideals of vision, extensive analysis of art works discloses a ubiquitous commitment to stimulating an intellectual perception of divine, essential, and unseen realities that enliven the visible material world.

Alltag als Exemplum - Religioese und profane Deutungsmuster der fruhen Genrekunst (German, Hardcover): Jurgen Muller, Sandra... Alltag als Exemplum - Religioese und profane Deutungsmuster der fruhen Genrekunst (German, Hardcover)
Jurgen Muller, Sandra Braune
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Lange Zeit galt Genrekunst als Abbild der Wirklichkeit und der Prozess zunehmender Sakularisierung schien die Ursache ihrer Entstehung. Heute herrschen Erklarungen vor, welche die Genrekunst im Sinne gemalter Ethik und Lasterdarstellungen als Beitrag eines christlich-didaktischen Programms werten. Der vorliegende Band erweitert diese Perspektiven. Denn die Genremalerei stellt sich politischen, theologischen wie kunsttheoretischen Fragen und erweist sich als Medium einer im Aufbruch begriffenen Welt. So ist es kein Zufall, dass sich die Anfange der Genrekunst im 15. Jahrhundert in druckgraphischen Werken - im fortschrittlichsten Reproduktionsmedium jener Zeit - finden. Dabei adressiert sie ein stadtisches Publikum, das im Alltag immer wieder dem Problem christlicher Lebensfuhrung gegenubersteht. Die Publikation versammelt Beitrage mit Interpretationen exemplarischer Genrebilder von Albrecht Durer, Hieronymus Bosch, Petrus Christus oder Jan Sanders van Hemessen und regt zu einer Neubewertung der Gattung an, um sie als selbstreflexive, konfliktoffene Kunstform sichtbar zu machen.

Leonardo on Painting - An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci; With a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career as... Leonardo on Painting - An Anthology of Writings by Leonardo da Vinci; With a Selection of Documents Relating to his Career as an Artist (Paperback)
Martin Kemp
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Leonardo's writings on painting-among the most remarkable from any era-were never edited by Leonardo himself into a single coherent book. In this anthology the authors have edited material not only from his so-called Treatise on Painting but also from his surviving manuscripts and from other primary sources, some of which were here translated for the first time. The resulting volume is an invaluable reference work for art historians as well as for anyone interested in the mind and methods of one of the world's greatest creative geniuses. "Highly readable. . . . Also included are documentary sources and letters illuminating Leonardo's career; the manuscript sources for all of Leonardo's statements are fully cited in the notes. The volume is skillfully translated and is illustrated with appropriate examples of drawings and paintings by the artist."-Choice "Certainly easier to read and . . . more convenient than previous compilations." -Charles Hope, New York Review of Books "A chaotic assemblage of Leonardo da Vinci's writings appeared in 1651 as Treatise on Painting. . . . [Kemp] successfully applies . . . order to the chaos."-ArtNews

Galleria Borghese. General Catalogue - I. Modern Sculpture (Hardcover): Anna Coliva, Vittoria Brunetti Galleria Borghese. General Catalogue - I. Modern Sculpture (Hardcover)
Anna Coliva, Vittoria Brunetti
R2,538 Discovery Miles 25 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Galleria Borghese brings together an extraordinary collection of ancient and modern sculpture within a beautifully decorated villa. This volume, dedicated to modern sculpture (Late Renaissance to Baroque to Neoclassical), marks the start of a new general catalogue of the collection. The introduction narrates the history of the collection, from its creation by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the 17th century to its sale to the Italian Republic at the end of the 19th century. The entries are full of chronological details, new attributions, information on restorations and account for the different historical settings thanks to an accurate study of the inventory records of the villa. They include world-famous masterpieces by Algardi, Bernini and Canova among others. The sale to Napoleon of many of its Antique works of art (now in the Louvre) was key to the Borghese's commission works of ancient inspiration, the analysis of which animates the pages of another section, based on the concepts of copy and remake. The catalogue closes with a section on restoration, that gives an account of the fundamental role of 16- to 18th-century sculptors in the maintenance and transformation of the archaeological collection in relation to the villa's display requirements. Text in Italian.

Pious Journeys - Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Paperback): Linda Seidel Pious Journeys - Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Paperback)
Linda Seidel
R649 Discovery Miles 6 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In their ongoing search for divinity, Western European Christians followed many different paths to a personal connection with the eternal, including the intimacies of private prayer, the spectacle of the Mass, and the veneration of saintly relics. Along the way, art objects and artifacts served as companions, guides, and comforts. The essays in this catalogue consider the central role objects and images played in these spiritual journeys. They investigate imagery's critical role in the development of personal devotions, in the organization of liturgical worship, and in practices surrounding the institution of the Eucharist and the cult of saints.

Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art - The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien (Paperback): Yvonne Owens Abject Eroticism in Northern Renaissance Art - The Witches and Femmes Fatales of Hans Baldung Grien (Paperback)
Yvonne Owens; Foreword by Joseph Leo Koerner
R1,293 Discovery Miles 12 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Hans Baldung Grien, the most famous apprentice and close friend of German artist Albrecht Dürer, was known for his unique and highly eroticised images of witches. In paintings and woodcut prints, he gave powerful visual expression to late medieval tropes and stereotypes, such as the poison maiden, venomous virgin, the Fall of Man, ‘death and the maiden’ and other motifs and eschatological themes, which mingled abject and erotic qualities in the female body. Yvonne Owens reads these images against the humanist intellectual milieu of Renaissance Germany, showing how classical and medieval medicine and natural philosophy interpreted female anatomy as toxic, defective and dangerously beguiling. She reveals how Hans Baldung exploited this radical polarity to create moralising and titillating portrayals of how monstrous female sexuality victimised men and brought them low. Furthermore, these images issued from—and contributed to—the contemporary understanding of witchcraft as a heresy that stemmed from natural ‘feminine defect,’ a concept derived from Aristotle. Offering new and provocative interpretations of Hans Baldung’s iconic witchcraft imagery, this book is essential reading for historians of art, culture and gender relations in the late medieval and early modern periods.

A Cultural Symbiosis - Patrician Art Patronage and Medicean Cultural Politics in Florence (1530-1610) (Paperback): Klazina... A Cultural Symbiosis - Patrician Art Patronage and Medicean Cultural Politics in Florence (1530-1610) (Paperback)
Klazina Botke, Henk H. T. Van Veen
R1,626 R887 Discovery Miles 8 870 Save R739 (45%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture (Hardcover): Elizabeth Merrill Creating Place in Early Modern European Architecture (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Merrill; Contributions by Noam Andrews, Federico Bellini, Paul Brakmann, Nele De Raedt, …
R4,445 R2,811 Discovery Miles 28 110 Save R1,634 (37%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The importance of place - as a unique spatial identity - has been recognized since antiquity. Ancient references to the 'genius loci', or spirit of place, evoked not only the location of a distinct atmosphere or environment, but also the protection of this location, and implicitly, its making and construction. This volume examines the concept of place as it relates to architectural production and building knowledge in early modern Europe (1400-1800). The places explored in the book's ten essays take various forms, from an individual dwelling to a cohesive urban development to an extensive political territory. Within the scope of each study, the authors draw on primary source documents and original research to demonstrate the distinctive features of a given architectural place, and how these are related to a geographic location, social circumstances, and the contributions of individual practitioners. The essays underscore the distinct techniques, practices and organizational structures by which physical places were made in the early modern period.

Michelangelo 500 (English, Italian, Hardcover): Fabio Scaletti Michelangelo 500 (English, Italian, Hardcover)
Fabio Scaletti
R1,739 Discovery Miles 17 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This beautiful book in the "500" series celebrates the extraordinary talent of Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, arguably the most renowned artist of the Italian Renaissance. 500 years ago, he was 46 years old. He had already completed the Statue of David, the Doni Tondo, the Vatican Pieta, and the Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. He would later paint the Last Judgement, the frescoes of the Pauline Chapel, and complete the Tomb of Julius II. This book celebrates his magisterial accomplishments throughout his lifetime, and includes his less celebrated works, architectural projects, lost works, and attributions. Text in English and Italian.

Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia - Luis de Morales (Hardcover): Jean Andrews Painting and Devotion in Golden Age Iberia - Luis de Morales (Hardcover)
Jean Andrews
R2,180 Discovery Miles 21 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations. He spent almost his entire working life in the Spanish city of Badajoz, not far from the border with Portugal and did not travel outside of a small area around that city, covering both sides of the border. The social, political and cultural environment of Badajoz and its environs is crucial for a thorough understanding of his output. This book provides that context in detail, looking at literature and liturgical theatre, the situation of converted Jews and Muslims, the presence of Erasmianism, Lutheranism and Illuminism (Alumbradismo), devotional writing for lay people and proximity to the Braganca ducal palace in Portugal as a means of explaining this most enigmatic of painters.

Hans Holbein - The Artist in a Changing World (Hardcover): Jeanne Nuechterlein Hans Holbein - The Artist in a Changing World (Hardcover)
Jeanne Nuechterlein
R567 R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Save R53 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Immensely skillful and inventive, Hans Holbein molded his approach to art-making during a period of dramatic transformation in European society and culture: the emergence of humanism, the impact of the Reformation on religious life and the effects of new scientific discoveries. Most people have encountered Holbein's work - Henry VIII was forever defined for posterity by his memorable portrait - but little is widely known about the artist himself. This overview of Holbein looks at his art through the changes in the world around him. Offering insightful and often surprising new interpretations of visual and historical sources that have rarely been addressed, Jeanne Nuechterlein reconstructs what we know of the life of this elusive figure, illuminating the complexity of his world and the images he generated.

Hans Baldung Grien - heilig | unheilig (German, Hardcover): Holger Jacob-Friesen Hans Baldung Grien - heilig | unheilig (German, Hardcover)
Holger Jacob-Friesen
R1,270 Discovery Miles 12 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Hans Baldung Grien war einer der aussergewoehnlichsten deutschen Kunstler der Renaissance. In einer Epoche tiefgreifender Umwalzungen schuf er ein vielfaltiges und eigenstandiges Werk, das bis heute fasziniert. Der Katalog begleitete die Grosse Landesausstellung in der Staatlichen Kunsthalle Karlsruhe und umfasst rund 250 Exponate aus zahlreichen internationalen Sammlungen, darunter intime Andachtsbilder, leuchtende Glasgemalde, charaktervolle Portrats, humanistische Denkbilder und sinnliche Akte, zu denen auch die beruhmten Sundenfalldarstellungen und die drastischen Hexenszenen zahlen. Mit Einfuhrungen und Exponat-Texten, die sich an ein breiteres Publikum richten, sowie vielen Abbildungen bietet er einen einzigartigen UEberblick uber das Werk dieses grossen Malers, Zeichners und Druckgrafikers.

Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance - The Mirror up to Nature (Hardcover): John H. Astington Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance - The Mirror up to Nature (Hardcover)
John H. Astington
R2,898 Discovery Miles 28 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of visual culture in evidence from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, from the grandeur of court murals to the cheap amusement of woodcut prints, John H. Astington shows how English drama drew heavily on this imagery to stimulate the imagination of the audience. He analyses the intersection of the theatrical and the visual through such topics as Shakespeare's Roman plays and the contemporary interest in Roman architecture and sculpture; the central myth of Troy and its widely recognised iconography; scriptural drama and biblical illustration; and the emblem of the theatre itself. The book demonstrates how the art that surrounded Shakespeare and his contemporaries had a profound influence on the ways in which theatre was produced and received.

Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed): Diana Bullen Presciutti Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy (Hardcover, New Ed)
Diana Bullen Presciutti
R4,803 Discovery Miles 48 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The social problem of infant abandonment captured the public's imagination in Italy during the fifteenth century, a critical period of innovation and development in charitable discourses. As charity toward foundlings became a political priority, the patrons and supporters of foundling hospitals turned to visual culture to help them make their charitable work understandable to a wide audience. Focusing on four institutions in central Italy that possess significant surviving visual and archival material, Visual Cultures of Foundling Care in Renaissance Italy examines the discursive processes through which foundling care was identified, conceptualized, and promoted. The first book to consider the visual culture of foundling hospitals in Renaissance Italy, this study looks beyond the textual evidence to demonstrate that the institutional identities of foundling hospitals were articulated by means of a wide variety of visual forms, including book illumination, altarpieces, fresco cycles, institutional insignia, processional standards, prints, and reliquaries. The author draws on fields as diverse as art history, childhood studies, the history of charity, Renaissance studies, gender studies, sociology, and the history of religion to elucidate the pivotal role played by visual culture in framing and promoting the charitable succor of foundlings.

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