A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

Contributors viii Preface xv Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Babette Bohn and James M. Saslow Part 1 The Context: Social-Historical Factors in ArtisticProduction 21 1 A Taxonomy of Art Patronage in Renaissance Italy 23 Sheryl E. Reiss 2 Judaism and the Arts in Early Modern Europe: Jewish andChristian Encounters 44 Shelley Perlove 3 Religion, Politics, and Art in Late Medieval and RenaissanceItaly 65 Julia I. Miller 4 Europe's Global Vision 85 Larry Silver 5 Italian Art and the North: Exchanges, Critical Reception, andIdentity, 1400-1700 106 Amy Golahny 6 The Desiring Eye: Gender, Sexuality, and the Visual Arts127 James M. Saslow Part 2 The Artist: Creative Process and Social Status149 7 The Artist as Genius 151 William E. Wallace 8 Drawing in Renaissance Italy 168 Mary Vaccaro 9 Self-Portraiture 1400-1700 189 H. Perry Chapman 10 Recasting the Role of the Italian Sculptor: Sculptors,Patrons, Materials, and Principles for the New Early Modern Age210 Elinor M. Richter 11 From Oxymoron to Virile Paintbrush: Women Artists in EarlyModern Europe 229 Babette Bohn Part 3 The Object: Art as Material Culture 251 12 The Birth of Mass Media: Printmaking in Early Modern Europe253 Alison G. Stewart 13 The Material Culture of Family Life in Italy and Beyond275 Jacqueline Marie Musacchio 14 Tapestry: Luxurious Art, Collaborative Industry 295 Koenraad Brosens 15 The New Sciences and the Visual Arts 316 Eileen Reeves 16 Seeing Through Renaissance and Baroque Paintings: CaseStudies 336 Claire Barry Part 4 The Message: Subjects and Meanings 359 17 Iconography in Renaissance and Baroque Art 361 Mark Zucker 18 Renaissance Landscapes: Discovering the World and HumanNature 381 Lawrence O. Goedde 19 The Nude Figure in Renaissance Art 402 Thomas Martin 20 Genre Painting in Seventeenth-Century Europe 422 Wayne Franits 21 The Meaning of the European Painted Portrait, 1400-1650442 Joanna Woods-Marsden 22 All the World's a Stage: The Theater Conceit in EarlyModern Italy 463 Inge Jackson Reist 23 Intensity and Orthodoxy in Iberian and Hispanic Art of theTridentine Era, 1550-1700 484 Marcus B. Burke Part 5 The Viewer, the Critic, and the Historian: Receptionand Interpretation as Cultural Discourse 505 24 Historians of Northern European Art: From JohannNeudörfer and Karel van Mander to the Rembrandt ResearchProject 507 Jeffrey Chipps Smith 25 Artistic Biography in Italy: Vasari to Malvasia 525 David Cast 26 With a Critical Eye: Painting and Theory in France,1600-43 The Case of Simon Vouet and Nicolas Poussin 541 Joseph C. Forte 27 The Italian Piazza: From Gothic Footnote to Baroque Theater561 Niall Atkinson 28 Building in Theory and Practice: Writing about Architecturein the Renaissance 582 Carolyn Yerkes Index 602