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Early Modern Visual Allegory

Author : Cristelle Baskins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351568951

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Early Modern Visual Allegory by Cristelle Baskins Pdf

The first book in over twenty-five years devoted solely to allegory and personification in art history, this anthology complements current literary and cultural studies of allegory. The volume re-examines early modern allegorical imagery in light of crucial material, contextual and methodological questions: how are allegories conceived; for whom; and for what purposes? Contributors consider a wide range of allegorical representations in the visual arts and material culture, of both early modern Europe and the colonial "New World" 1400-1800. Essays included here examine paintings, sculpture, prints, architecture and the spaces of public ritual while discussing the process and theory of interpretation, formation of audiences, reception history, appropriation and censorship. A special focus on the medium of the body in visual allegory unites the volume's diverse materials and methods.

Early Modern Visual Allegory: Embodying Meaning

Author : Cristelle Baskins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 131509472X

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Early Modern Visual Allegory: Embodying Meaning by Cristelle Baskins Pdf

"The first book in over twenty-five years devoted solely to allegory and personification in art history, this anthology complements current literary and cultural studies of allegory. The volume re-examines early modern allegorical imagery in light of crucial material, contextual and methodological questions: how are allegories conceived; for whom; and for what purposes? Contributors consider a wide range of allegorical representations in the visual arts and material culture, of both early modern Europe and the colonial "New World" 1400-1800. Essays included here examine paintings, sculpture, prints, architecture and the spaces of public ritual while discussing the process and theory of interpretation, formation of audiences, reception history, appropriation and censorship. A special focus on the medium of the body in visual allegory unites the volume's diverse materials and methods."--Provided by publisher.

Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe

Author : Sandra Cavallo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351569323

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Domestic Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe by Sandra Cavallo Pdf

The early modern period saw the proliferation of religious, public and charitable institutions and the emergence of new educational structures. By bringing together two areas of inquiry that have so far been seen as distinct, the study of institutions and that of the house and domesticity, this collection provides new insights into the domestic experience of men, women and children who lived in non-family arrangements, while also expanding and problematizing the notion of 'domestic interior'. Through specific case studies, contributors reassess the validity of the categories 'domestic' and 'institutional' and of the oppositions private public, communal individual, religious profane applied to institutional spaces and objects. They consider how rituals, interior decorations, furnishings and images were transferred from the domestic to the institutional interior and vice versa, but also the creative ways in which the residents participated in the formation of their living settings. A variety of secular and religious institutions are considered: hospitals, asylums and orphanages, convents, colleges, public palaces of the ducal and papal court. The interest and novelty of this collection resides in both its subject matter and its interdisciplinary and Europe-wide dimension. The theme is addressed from the perspective of art history, architectural history, and social, gender and cultural history. Chapters deal with Italy, Britain, the Netherlands, Flanders and Portugal and with both Protestant and Catholic settings. The wide range of evidence employed by contributors includes sources - such as graffiti, lottery tickets or garland pictures - that have rarely if ever been considered by historians.

Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Author : Allison Levy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351872980

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Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe by Allison Levy Pdf

Whereas recent studies of early modern widowhood by social, economic and cultural historians have called attention to the often ambiguous, yet also often empowering, experience and position of widows within society, Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe is the first book to consider the distinct and important relationship between ritual and representation. The fifteen new interdisciplinary essays assembled here read widowhood as a catalyst for the production of a significant body of visual material-representations of, for and by widows, whether through traditional media, such as painting, sculpture and architecture, or through the so-called 'minor arts,' including popular print culture, medals, religious and secular furnishings and ornament, costume and gift objects, in early modern Austria, England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Arranged thematically, this unique collection allows the reader to recognize and appreciate the complexity and contradiction, iconicity and mutability, and timelessness and timeliness of widowhood and representation.

The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe

Author : Marcus Keller,Javier Irigoyen-García
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137462367

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The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe by Marcus Keller,Javier Irigoyen-García Pdf

Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Dialectics of Orientalism demonstrates how texts and images of the sixteenth and seventeenth century from across Europe and the New World are better understood as part of a dynamic and transformative orientalist discourse rather than a manifestation of the supposed dichotomy between the 'East' and the 'West.' The volume's central claim is that early modern orientalist discourses are fundamentally open, self-critical, and creative. Analyzing a varied corpus-from German and Dutch travelogues to Spanish humanist treaties, French essays, Flemish paintings, and English diaries-this collection thus breathes fresh air into the critique of Orientalism and provides productive new perspectives for the study of east-west and indeed globalized exchanges in the early modern world.

Allegory Studies

Author : Vladimir Brljak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000403725

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Allegory Studies by Vladimir Brljak Pdf

Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives collects some of the most compelling current work in allegory studies, by an international team of researchers in a range of disciplines and specializations in the humanities and cognitive sciences. The volume tracks the subject across disciplinary, cultural, and period-based divides, from its shadowy origins to its uncertain future, and from the rich variety of its cultural and artistic manifestations to its deep cognitive roots. Allegory is everything we already know it to be: a mode of literary and artistic composition, and a religious as well as secular interpretive practice. As this volume attests, however, it is much more than that—much more than a sum of its parts. Collectively, the phenomena we now subsume under this term comprise a dynamic cultural force which has left a deep imprint on our history, whose full impact we are only beginning to comprehend, and which therefore demands precisely such dedicated cross-disciplinary examination as this book seeks to provide.

Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies

Author : Anna Riehl Bertolet
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319640488

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Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies by Anna Riehl Bertolet Pdf

The essays in this book traverse two centuries of queens and their afterlives—historical, mythological, and literary. They speak of the significant and subtle ways that queens leave their mark on the culture they inhabit, focusing on gender, marriage, national identity, diplomacy, and representations of queens in literature. Elizabeth I looms large in this volume, but the interrogation of queenship extends from Elizabeth's historical counterparts, such as Anne Boleyn and Catherine de Medici, to her fictional echoes in the pages of John Lyly, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish. Celebrating and building on the renowned scholarship of Carole Levin, Queens Matter in Early Modern Studies exemplifies a range of innovative approaches to examining women and power in the early modern period.

Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa

Author : ElizabethA. Sutton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351569057

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Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa by ElizabethA. Sutton Pdf

Using Pieter de Marees' Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as her main source material, author Elizabeth Sutton brings to bear approaches from the disciplines of art history and book history to explore the context in which De Marees' account was created. Since variations of the images and text were repeated in other European travel collections and decorated maps, Sutton is able to trace how the framing of text and image shaped the formation of knowledge that continued to be repeated and distilled in later European depictions of Africans. She reads the engravings in De Marees' account as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry, and Dutch mercantilism. At the same time, by analyzing the marketing tactics of the publisher, Cornelis Claesz, this study illuminates how early modern epistemological processes were influenced by the commodification of knowledge. Sutton examines the book's construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade, and travel. Exploring how the images and text function together, Sutton suggests that Dutch visual and intellectual traditions informed readers' choices for translating De Marees' text visually. Through the examination of early modern Dutch print culture, Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa expands the boundaries of our understanding of the European imperial enterprise.

Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens

Author : Lisa Rosenthal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521842441

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Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Rubens by Lisa Rosenthal Pdf

Gender, Politics, and Allegory in the Art of Peter Paul Rubens examines the intertwined relationship between paintings of family and marriage, and of war, peace, and statehood by the Flemish master. Drawing extensively upon recent critical and gender theory, Lisa Rosenthal reshapes our view of Rubens' works and of the interpretive practices through which we engage them. Close readings offer new interpretations of canonical images, while bringing into view other powerful works which are less familiar. The focus on gender serves as a catalyst that enables an original way of reading visual allegory, giving it a dynamic multivalence undiscovered by traditional iconographic methods.

Printed Images in Early Modern Britain

Author : Michael Cyril William Hunter
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 0754666549

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Printed Images in Early Modern Britain by Michael Cyril William Hunter Pdf

Printed images were widely disseminated in early-modern Britain, yet, by comparison with texts, they have been relatively neglected, even by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British printed images to 1700, it offers a series of essays which demonstrate the many and varied ways in which images can better integrated into the history of the period. Including contributions from many leading exponents of the cultural history of early-modern Britain, it repeatedly underlines how every facet of British culture in the period can be better understood with an appreciation of printed images.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Author : Jane Couchman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041047

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by Jane Couchman Pdf

Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.

Personification

Author : Walter Melion,Bart Ramakers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004310438

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Personification by Walter Melion,Bart Ramakers Pdf

The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries

Bodies and Maps

Author : Maryanne Cline Horowitz,Louise Arizzoli
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004438033

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Bodies and Maps by Maryanne Cline Horowitz,Louise Arizzoli Pdf

An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.

Visualizing the Text

Author : Lauren Beck,Christina Ionescu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781611496468

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Visualizing the Text by Lauren Beck,Christina Ionescu Pdf

This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. The images included in the book provide readers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans from manuscript culture to the age of caricature.

Allegory and Enchantment

Author : Jason Crawford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198788041

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Allegory and Enchantment by Jason Crawford Pdf

Jason Crawford explores the emergence of modernity by investigating the early modern poetics of allegorical narrative. He focuses on four major allegorical narratives produced in the period: William Langland's Piers Plowman, John Skelton's The Bowge of Courte, Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene, and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.