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This catalogue includes new Renaissance Art titles for 2013 as well as key backlist titles.

Renaissance Art The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings (c. 1500) The Origins of Collecting in Early Modern Northern Italy Evelyn Karet, Clark University, USA Tracing the provenance of the earliest album of drawings from its assemblage in the late 1530s to its dismantling in the 1950s, this book fills a critical gap in the study of northern Italian drawings and explores the historic tradition of collecting drawings and humanist collections in northern Italy before Vasari for which the album provides a new point of reference. The study includes a reconstruction of the original album and a page-by-page guide to its contents, providing insight into an overlooked subject.

Includes 146 b&w illustrations January 2014 Hardback

200 pages 978-0-7546-6571-7

£60.00

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Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1100-1500 Southern Europe and Beyond Edited by Paul Davies, University of Reading, UK, Deborah Howard and Wendy Pullan, both at Cambridge University, UK Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1000-1500: Southern Europe and Beyond synthesises the work of a distinguished international group of scholars. It takes a broad view of architecture, to include cities, routes and ritual topographies, as well as specific buildings and shrines, and considers how these were perceived, represented and remembered. The essays explore both the ways in which the physical embodiment of pilgrimage cultures is shared, and what we can learn from the differences.

The Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture

The Art of Religion Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini’s Rome Maarten Delbeke, Ghent University, Belgium and University of Leiden, The Netherlands

With a Critical Edition of ‘O Vernicle’ Edited by Lisa H. Cooper, University of WisconsinMadison, USA and Andrea Denny-Brown, University of California-Riverside, USA This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the ‘instruments of the Passion,’ in medieval and early modern culture.

From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprung a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images, and innovative architecture. The verbal and visual representations that accrued from these holiest of relics, and the practices they in turn inspired, are relevant to a wide variety of critical fields and theoretical approaches.

This collection capitalizes on recent work on these most central of medieval ‘objects,’ and produces, through its interdisciplinary and intergenerational scholarly collaboration, a fresh view of the multiple intersections of the spiritual and the material in the Middle Ages. It also includes a new edition of the English arma Christi poem known as ‘O Vernicle’ from previously unpublished manuscripts.

Includes 29 b&w and 29 colour illustrations January 2014 Hardback

407 pages 978-1-4094-5676-6

£70.00

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Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena Edited by Timothy B. Smith, Birmingham-Southern College, USA and Judith B. Steinhoff, University of Houston, USA

Includes 79 b&w illustrations

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Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450-1750

Clearly establishing uniquely Sienese artistic agendas and vocabulary, the essays collected here broaden our understanding of the intersection of art, politics and religion in Siena by revisiting its medieval origins and exploring its continuing role in the Renaissance.

Engaging issues of the politicization of art in Sienese painting, sculpture, architecture and urban design, the volume challenges the still-prevalent myth of Siena’s cultural and artistic conservatism after the mid-fourteenth century.

Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard

Includes 63 b&w illustrations

Edited by Nebahat Avcioglu, Hunter College, CUNY, USA and Emma Jones, Cambridge University, UK

November 2012 Hardback

October 2013 Hardback

290 pages 978-1-4724-1083-2

£60.00

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Inspired by Deborah Howard’s leading role in fostering a historically grounded and interdisciplinary approach to the art and architecture of Venice, the essays here examine the connections and rapports between art and identity through the discussion of patronage, space (domestic and ecclesiastical), and dissemination of architectural knowledge as well as models within Venice, its territories and beyond.

Includes 16 colour and 72 b&w illustrations January 2014 Hardback

300 pages 978-1-4724-1082-5

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472410825

£60.00

248 pages 978-1-4094-0066-0

£55.00

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HISTORIES OF VISION

‘This exciting and elegant book is like nothing else to have appeared thus far in English concerning the epicenter of Baroque art, namely Bernini’s Rome. Delbeke shows us how art theory works in early modernity, by examining the discourses and practices of seventeenth-century Rome through the lens of one of the most prominent figures of the age, Sforza Pallavicino, who was a philosopher, theologian and strikingly innovative aesthetic thinker whose ideas have surprisingly strong links with the aesthetic philosophy of the eighteenth century to come.

Many major and minor players on the Roman stage-from Urban VIII and Alexander VII to Giovanni Ciampoli and Bernini himself-fill the pages of this beautifully composed book. Offering an invaluable guide to the intellectual ferment of the Seicento in the Eternal City, this is at once a work of theory and cultural history of a high order, and should be of interest to anyone who has ever fallen under the seductive sway of the Baroque.’

Jon R. Snyder, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Bernini and Pallavicino, the artist and the Jesuit cardinal, are closely related figures at the papal courts of Urban VIII and Alexander VII, at which Bernini was the principal artist. The analysis of Pallavicino’s writings offers a new perspective on Bernini’s art and artistry and allow us to understand the visual arts in papal Rome as a ‘making manifest’ of the fundamental truths of faith.

Pallavicino’s views on art and its effects differ fundamentally from the perspective developed in Bernini’s biographies offering a perspective on the tension between artist and patron, work and message.

In Pallavicino’s writings the visual arts emerge as being intrinsically bound up with the very core of religion involving questions of idolatry, mimesis and illusionism that would prove central to the aesthetic debates of the eighteenth century.

Includes 20 b&w illustrations August 2012 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

258 pages 978-0-7546-3485-0 978-1-4094-5884-5 978-1-4094-5885-2

£60.00

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari Edited by David J. Cast, Bryn Mawr College, USA The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings together the world’s foremost experts on Vasari as well as up-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversary of his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current state of scholarship on this important – and still controversial – artist and writer. Contributors examine the life and work of Vasari as an artist and architect and as a biographer of artists, and explore his legacy.

Includes 32 b&w illustrations February 2014 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

320 pages 978-1-4094-0847-5 978-1-4724-1391-8 978-1-4724-1392-5

£85.00

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

TRANSCULTURALISMS, 1400–1700

Edited by Asa Simon Mittman, California State University, Chico, USA and Peter Dendle, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA

Series Editors: Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami, USA, Ann Rosalind Jones, Smith College, USA and Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State University, USA This series presents studies of the early modern contacts and exchanges among the states, polities and entrepreneurial organizations of Europe; Asia, including the Levant and East India/Indies; Africa; and the Americas. Books investigate travellers, merchants and cultural inventors, including explorers, mapmakers, artists and writers, as they operated in political, mercantile, sexual and linguistic economies. We encourage authors to reflect on their own methodologies in relation to issues and theories relevant to the study of transculturism/translation and transnationalism.

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Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa

Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World

Elizabeth A. Sutton, The University of Northern Iowa, USA

Edited by Dana Leibsohn, Smith College, USA and Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

In this study, art historian Elizabeth Sutton reads the engravings of Pieter de Marees’ Description and Historical Account of the Gold Kingdom of Guinea (1602) as a demonstration of the intertwining domains of the Dutch pictorial tradition, intellectual inquiry and Dutch mercantilism. Sutton examines the book’s construction and marketing to shed new light on the social milieus that shared interests in ethnography, trade and travel, ultimately enhancing our understanding of the European imperial enterprise.

What were the possibilities and limits of vision in the early modern world? Drawing upon experiences forged in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, Seeing Across Cultures shows how distinctive ways of habituating the eyes in the early modern period had profound implications – in the realm of politics, daily practice and the imaginary. Beyond their interest in visual culture, the essays here expand our understanding of transcultural encounters and the history of vision.

Includes 6 colour and 47 b&w illustrations

Includes 18 colour and 64 b&w illustrations

December 2012 Hardback

296 pages 978-1-4094-3970-7

£60.00

June 2012 Hardback

302 pages 978-1-4094-1189-5

£65.00

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409411895

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‘This volume awakens the monster as an academic topic.

Combining John Block Friedman’s historical-literary approach with Jeffrey J. Cohen’s theoretical concerns, Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle have marshalled chapters that comprise a seminal work for everyone interested in the monstrous. Wide-ranging chapters work through various historical and geographic views of monstrosity, from the African Mami Wata to Pokemon.

Theoretical chapters consider contemporary views of what a monster is and why we care about them as we do. Taken together, the essays in The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous reveal that monsters appear in every culture and haunt each of us in different ways, or as Mittman says, the monstrous calls into question our (their, anyone’s) epistemological worldview, highlights its fragmentary and inadequate nature, and thereby asks us […] to acknowledge the failures of our systems of categorization.’

David Sprunger, Concordia College, Minnesota, USA The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multidisciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics and cultural and media studies. The companion offers scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.

Includes 71 b&w illustrations April 2012 Paperback Hardback

Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico

The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750

Mónica Domínguez Torres, University of Delaware, USA

Visual Imagery before Orientalism

WINNER, CAA WYETH FOUNDATION PUBLICATION GRANT

Edited by James G. Harper, University of Oregon, USA

Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, Mónica Domínguez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in postConquest Mexico. She shows how the “conquest” in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, indeed creating cultural bridges between these diverse communities.

Includes 8 colour and 56 b&w illustrations September 2013 Hardback

300 pages 978-0-7546-6671-4

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754666714

Includes 70 b&w illustrations 342 pages 978-0-7546-6330-0

£70.00

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754663300 £65.00

Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522–1657 Edited by Christina H. Lee, Princeton University, USA Covering the transpacific period--in between Magellan’s opening of the transpacific route to the Far East and the eventual dominance of the region by the British and the Dutch – this collection provides a broad perspective on how Western Europe made sense of a complex, multi-faceted, and by and large Sino-centered East and Southeast Asia.

242 pages 978-1-4094-0850-5 978-1-4094-5236-2 978-1-4094-8368-7

Edited by Angeliki Lymberopoulou, Open University, UK and Rembrandt Duits, The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe discusses the cultural and artistic interaction between the Byzantine east and western Europe, from the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204 to the flourishing of postByzantine artistic workshops on Venetian Crete during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and the formation of icon collections in Renaissance Italy. The contributors examine the routes by which artistic interaction may have taken place, and explore the reception of Byzantine art in western Europe, analysing why artists and patrons were interested in ideas from the other side of the cultural and religious divide. The book offers new perspectives and insights and re-positions late- and post- Byzantine art in a broader European cultural context.

Includes 16 colour and 45 b&w illustrations, and 5 maps March 2013 Hardback

236 pages 978-1-4094-2038-5

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409420385

£60.00

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Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe

Includes 17 b&w illustrations September 2012 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

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The first book in English to approach the topic in this way, this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the early modern Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual essays examine specific images or groups of images, problematizing the ‘truths’ they present and analyzing the contexts that shape the presentation of Ottoman or Islamic subject matter in European art.

June 2011 Hardback

598 pages 978-1-4724-1801-2 978-1-4094-0754-6

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Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez

Dynasty and Piety

An Animal Studies Reading of Early Modern Spain NEW HISPANISMS: CULTURAL AND LITERARY STUDIES

‘John Beusterien’s book demonstrates that the compassion and empathy of Cervantes and Velázquez was not limited to members of their own species. In a world filled with cruelty toward human and nonhuman animals alike, Cervantes and Mateo Alemán could disapprove of Rabelaisian humor in which a madman smashes rocks on a dog’s head. Early modern Spain was not just one prolonged bullfight, and, by applying an animal studies approach, Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez shows us just how human hierarchy and abusive use of other animals might be challenged through humane reflections on dogs. Montaigne was not alone in the early modern world.’

Abel Alves, Ball State University, USA To date, no scholarly history of early modern Spanish dogs has been published. Aside from carrying out this task, this book evaluates the representation of dogs in the work of the artist Diego Velázquez and the author Miguel de Cervantes. In general, this study highlights the importance of Animal Studies in providing readers a fresh approach to the historical, artistic and literary complexity of early modern Spain.

Includes 10 b&w illustrations 162 pages 978-1-4094-5713-8 978-1-4094-5714-5 978-1-4724-0515-9

Margaretha Lagerlöf, Stockholm University, Sweden

A YANKEE BOOK PEDDLER UK CORE TITLE FOR 2012 ‘This book abounds with striking new insights...this is an outstanding study of an important yet overlooked European ruler and his world.’

Geoffrey Parker, American Historical Review Through an investigation of Archduke Albert’s (1559-1621) reign as ruler of the Spanish Netherlands, this book offers a new and fuller understanding of international events of the time, and the Habsburg role in them. Drawing on a wide range of archival and visual material, the resulting study of political culture demonstrates how the House of Habsburg functioned as a dynasty during critical years of increasing religious tensions. Based on extensive research in the archives left by the archducal regime and its diplomatic partners or rivals, it bridges the gap between the reigns of Philip II and Philip IV and puts research into the period onto a fascinating new basis.

April 2012 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

610 pages 978-0-7546-6904-3 978-1-4094-4375-9 978-1-4094-8306-9

£50.00

Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615 A Celebration of the Habsburg and Bourbon Unions Edited by Margaret M. McGowan, University of Sussex, UK EUROPEAN FESTIVAL STUDIES: 1450–1700

‘This collection of fourteen essays by scholars representing different disciplines illuminates brilliantly and uniquely the multi-faceted significance of dynastic marriages in early seventeenth-century Europe, especially France and Spain.’

Robert Knecht, University of Birmingham, UK The union of the two royal houses – the Habsburgs and the Bourbons – in the early seventeenth century illustrates the extent to which marriage was a tool of government in Renaissance Europe, and festivals a manifestation of power and cultural superiority. With contributions from scholars representing a range of disciplines, this volume provides an all-round view of the sequence of festivals and events surrounding the dynastic marriages which were agreed upon in 1612 but not celebrated until 1615 owing to the constant interruption of festivities by protestant uprisings.

‘…Significant and original … Lagerlof assembles here a group of monuments from France, Rome, and Stockholm, which allows for a synchronic interpretation and reading of significant issues of visuality and content across power regimes and the long time period of the Baroque style in Europe … it is the first comprehensive examination in the history of art of these galleries, and as such makes an important scholarly contribution from which others may draw further conclusions.’

Catherine M. Soussloff, University of British Columbia, Canada Analyzing the decorative programmes of the most opulent European palaces of the time, Margaretha Lagerlöf investigates how meaning was conveyed through display and visual effects. She explores the visual meaning inherent in the scheme of spatial relations; in effects of scale, perspective, lighting, figures’ positions and postures; and in relations among image types.

Includes 30 colour and 111 b&w illustrations

Includes 14 b&w illustrations £80.00

September 2013 Hardback

320 pages 978-1-4094-3154-1

£65.00

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Visualizing Supreme Power

Luc Duerloo, University of Antwerp, Belgium

John Beusterien, Texas Tech University, USA

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Fate, Glory, and Love in Early Modern Gallery Decoration

Archduke Albert (1598-1621) and Habsburg Political Culture in an Age of Religious Wars

Imperial Augsburg

Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art

Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540

Edited by Francesca Leoni, Ashmolean Museum, UK and Mika Natif, Harvard Art Museum, USA

With a storied past and a strong imperial presence, the southern German city of Augsburg enjoyed a golden age in the late 15th and early 16th centuries – fostering artists such as Hans Burgkmair, Erhard Ratdolt, Daniel Hopfer, Jörg Breu and Hans Weiditz. Focusing on the drawings, prints and illustrated books Augsburg’s artists created as well as the innovative printing techniques they used, this volume – the first of its kind in English – serves as an introduction to Augsburg, its artists and its cultural history, during this period.

Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume offers new insights and methodological models that extend our understanding of erotic and sexual subjects in the Islamic tradition.

The essays shed light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the motivations underlying their production, and on the responses generated by their circulation.

Gregory Jecmen and Freyda Spira

Includes 48 colour illustrations

Includes 8 colour and 56 b&w illustrations

August 2012 Hardback

October 2013 Hardback

www.lundhumphries.com/isbn/9781848221222

240 pages 978-1-4094-6438-9

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409464389

£60.00

120 pages 978-1-84822-122-2

£20.00

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Includes 62 b&w illustrations April 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

324 pages 978-1-4094-5725-1 978-1-4094-5726-8 978-1-4724-0490-9

£70.00

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Jeremias Drexel’s ‘Christian Zodiac’

Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe

Michelangelo and the English Martyrs

Seventeenth-Century Publishing Sensation A Critical Edition, Translated and with an Introduction & Notes

Edited by Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Anne Dillon, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, UK

Translated by Nicholas J. Crowe, Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Oxford, UK First published in 1622, Jeremias Drexel’s ‘Zodiacus christianus’ (or ‘Christian Zodiac’) was a remarkable work of religious iconography and spiritual self-help. Offering the first modern translation into English since the early seventeenth century, this critical edition re-acquaints Anglophone audiences with a sample of the spiritual and philosophical writings of a figure whose significant publication record made him a bestseller during his lifetime and for many decades afterwards. As well as addressing issues of spiritual iconography with relation to ‘signs of predestination’, the book also has much to say about authorship, publishing and the dissemination of ideas.

Includes 16 b&w Illustrations March 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

162 pages 978-1-4094-5212-6 978-1-4094-5213-3 978-1-4094-6483-9

£60.00

Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt Boudewijn Bakker, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‘This important book is the product of a lifetime of scholarship, written with scholarly rigor and a native son’s affection for the flat, watery terrain that gives the Netherlands its unique character. Bakker situates Dutch and Flemish landscape painting within the intellectual climate of its time, an era when the natural world was implicitly understood as a reflection of the divine. Exploring the work of talented artists from Bosch and Bruegel to Ruisdael and Rembrandt, this study elucidates the metaphorical, political, and religious connotations that early modern viewers found in landscape imagery. The new English edition, richly illustrated, brings Bakker’s stimulating ideas to a wider audience.’

Stephanie Dickey, Queen’s University, Canada Exploring the thought of historical figures seldom consulted by art historians – including Dionysius the Carthusian, John Calvin and Constantijn Huygens – Boudewijn, Bakker sheds new light on the history and significance of landscape in Netherlandish painting.

Through his analysis of these writers’ conceptions of landscape, Bakker identifies an unexpected dimension of landscape art, one which has its roots in late medieval perceptions of God and creation.

Includes 31 colour and 86 b&w illustrations 394 pages 978-1-4094-0486-6

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409404866

Renaissance Quarterly Until recently the impact of the Lutheran Reformation has been largely regarded in political and socio-economic terms, yet for most people it was not the abstract theological debates that had the greatest impact upon their lives, but the physical alterations made to their local parish church. This collection of essays provides a coherent and interdisciplinary investigation of the impact that the Lutheran Reformation had on the appearance, architecture and arrangement of early modern churches.

By focusing on ecclesiastical ‘material culture’ the collection helps to place the art and architecture of Lutheran places of worship into the historical, political and theological context of early modern Europe.

Includes 130 b&w illustrations

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409452126

December 2012 Hardback

‘Although thematically focused, the volume’s geographic breadth is expansive, covering Germany, Transylvania, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, the Dutch Republic, and its overseas settlements in Batavia and Cape Town. The essays offer a capacious understanding of spatiality through their interdisciplinary explorations of material culture, theology, politics, and social context.’

£70.00

March 2012 Hardback

536 pages 978-0-7546-6583-0

£75.00

www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754665830

‘Michelangelo and the English Martyrs is a stunning piece of detective work. Anne Dillon’s impressive research unlocks the secrets of an extraordinary broadsheet and reconstructs in compelling detail the overlapping religious, intellectual, political and cultural worlds from which it emerged. In the process, she transforms our understanding of the connections between English Catholicism, the European Counter Reformation, and the artistic Renaissance that flowered in sixteenth-century Rome. To read this remarkable book is to be taken on a fascinating journey that starts in Henrician London and ends in Michelangelo’s studio.’

Alexandra Walsham, University of Cambridge, UK This book uses a broadsheet print of the martyrdom of the Carthusians of the London Charterhouse during the reign of Henry VIII as a springboard to investigate several aspects of the Counter Reformation. Through an in-depth investigation of the text and images, Anne Dillon provides a lively account that connects Michelangelo, Cardinal Pole, Mary Tudor and Pope Julius III, and weaves them into a wider discussion of martyrology, polemic and the Catholic community in England and beyond.

Includes 28 colour and 81 b&w illustrations November 2012 Hardback

412 pages 978-0-7546-6447-5

New Approaches to Naples c.1500 – c.1800

The Materiality of Color The Production, Circulation, and Application of Dyes and Pigments, 1400–1800

The Power of Place

Edited by Andrea Feeser, Clemson University, USA, Maureen Daly Goggin, Arizona State University, USA, and Beth Fowkes Tobin, University of Georgia, USA THE HISTORIES OF MATERIAL CULTURE AND COLLECTING, 1700–1950

‘The Materiality of Color is a remarkable collection of essays on the meaning of color as found in social and cultural contexts. While the aesthetics of color is duly taken into account, the focus is on color production-technology transfer, monopolies, labor regimes, and economies of exchange. The authors make clear that the substances of color production, such as arsenic, mercury, urine, and dung, are as important as the dazzling colors they produced. Blending the histories of technologies and commodities as well as cultural and literary history, the volume makes a distinctive contribution to understanding of the global context in which the modern world of color was born.’

Robert Finlay, University of Arkansas, USA The purpose of this essay collection is to recover color’s complex and sometimes morally troubling past. By emphasising color’s materiality, and how it was produced, exchanged and used, contributors draw attention to the disjuncture between the beauty of color and the blood, sweat, and tears that went into its production, circulation and application as well as to the complicated and varied social meanings attached to color within specific historical and social contexts.

Edited by Melissa Calaresu, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK and Helen Hills, University of York, UK Early modern Naples has been characterised as a marginal, wild and exotic place on the fringes of the European world, and the target of frequent Catholic missionary attempts to ‘civilise’ the city. In recent historiography its reputation has suffered in relation to that of Venice, Florence and Rome, being often regarded as a city bypassed by the Renaissance and an emblem of cultural and political decline in the Italian peninsula.

Yet, as this volume makes plain, such views limit our understanding, not only of a key Mediterranean city, but also of the wider social, cultural and political aspects of early modern Europe.

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SERIES VISUAL CULTURE IN EARLY MODERNITY Series Editor: Allison Levy A forum for the critical inquiry of the visual arts in the early modern world, Visual Culture in Early Modernity promotes new models of inquiry and new narratives of early modern art and its history. We welcome proposals for both monographs and essay collections that consider the cultural production and reception of images and objects. The range of topics covered in this series includes, but is not limited to, painting, sculpture and architecture as well as material objects, such as domestic furnishings, religious and/or ritual accessories, costume, scientific/ medical apparata, erotica, ephemera and printed matter. We seek innovative investigations of western and non-western visual culture produced between 1400 and 1800.

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Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence

The Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400–1700

The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652)

Objects, Spaces, Domesticities

Authentic Voices/Expanding Markets

Sally J. Cornelison, The University of Kansas, USA

Edited by Erin J. Campbell, the University of Victoria, Canada, Stephanie R. Miller, Coastal Carolina University, USA and Elizabeth Carroll Consavari, San Jose University, USA

Tamara Heimarck Bentley, Colorado College, USA

Sally Cornelison draws upon contemporary visual, literary, and archival sources and diverse methodologies to interpret how the persona of St. Antoninus and the intercessory effectiveness of his relic cult were advertised to a broad audience of viewers and devotees during the Renaissance. Tracing the history of St. Antoninus’ burial sites from 1459 until 1589, this interdisciplinary study demonstrates that the saint’s cult was a key element of Florence’s sacred cityscape.

Includes 13 colour and 88 b&w illustrations September 2012 Hardback

386 pages 978-0-7546-6714-8

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Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe 6

Edited by Allie Terry-Fritsch and Erin Felicia Labbie, both at Bowling Green State University, USA Interrogating how medieval and early modern communities have acted as participants, observers, and interpreters of events and how they ascribed meaning to them, the essays in this collection explore the experience of individual or collective beholders of violence during the period. Addressing a range of medieval and early modern art forms, including visual images, objects, texts, and performances, the contributors examine the complexities of viewing and the production of knowledge across temporal moments.

Includes 46 b&w illustrations November 2012 Hardback

298 pages 978-1-4094-4286-8

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Adopting a broad chronological framework and expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, this collection offers new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy. The volume’s dual emphasis is on reconstructing the material culture of specific residences, and on how particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home.

Includes 21 b&w illustrations November 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

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304 pages 978-0-7546-6672-1

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Edited by Sharon Gregory and Sally Anne Hickson

Minou Schraven, Amsterdam University College, The Netherlands Interdisciplinary in scope, this study constitutes a thorough exploration of sixteenth-century Italian funeral apparati, placing them within their larger context of festival culture and liturgical memoria. The author draws on evidence from printed festival books and from unpublished archival sources, such as ceremonial diaries, diplomatic correspondence, and account books. The study sheds new light on the ritual, social, and artistic foundations of the funeral apparati tradition.

Includes 52 b&w illustrations

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May 2012 Hardback

Imitation, Reception, and Deceit in Early Modern Art

The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration

336 pages 978-0-7546-6524-3

Includes 99 b&w and 32 colour illustrations and 1 map

Inganno – The Art of Deception

Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy

March 2014 Hardback

Despite the importance of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652) as an artist and scholar of the late Ming period, until now no full length study in English has focused on his work. Author Tamara H. Bentley takes a broadly interdisciplinary approach, treating Chen’s oeuvre in relation to literary themes and economic changes, and linking these larger concerns to visual analyses. In so doing, Bentley sheds new light not only on Chen, but also on an important cultural moment in the first half of the seventeenth century, when Chinese scholar artists began to direct their work towards anonymous public markets.

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The essays contained in this volume address issues surrounding the use, dissemination and reception of imitations, copies and even deliberate forgeries within the history of art, focusing on paintings, prints and sculptures created and sold from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. As a whole, this volume opens up a new branch of art historical research concerned with the history and purpose of the copy.

Includes 21 b&w illustrations July 2012 Hardback

216 pages 978-1-4094-3149-7

£55.00

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Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome Edited by Peter Gillgren and Mårten Snickare, both at Stockholm University, Sweden In Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome, scholars from different fields of research explore performative aspects of Baroque culture. With examples from the politics of diplomacy and everyday life, from theatre, music and ritual as well as from architecture, painting and sculpture, the contributors demonstrate how broadly the concept of performativity has been adopted within different disciplines.

Includes 8 colour and 60 b&w illustrations April 2012 Hardback

280 pages 978-1-4094-2099-6

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Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party Claudia Goldstein, William Paterson University, USA Claudia Goldstein mines a rich, interdisciplinary mix of sources to shed new light on the cultural history of sixteenth-century Antwerp. Recontextualizing some of Bruegel’s work within the cultural nexus of the dining room, she offers a critical and entirely original examination of the function of early modern images for the people who owned and viewed them.

Includes 69 b&w illustrations May 2013 Hardback

186 pages 978-0-7546-6732-2

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Todd M. Richardson, University of Memphis, USA Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the SixteenthCentury Netherlands examines Bruegel’s later paintings in the context of two contemporary discourses-art theoretical and convivial. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the author analyzes a variety of images, texts and historical records to offer a broader understanding of not only the artist, but also of the vibrant artistic dialogue occurring in the Netherlands during the sixteenth century.

Includes 8 colour and 86 b&w illustrations £60.00

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Andrea Bubenik, The University of Queensland, Australia Focusing on the ways his art and persona were valued and criticized by writers, collectors, and artists subsequent to his death, this book examines the reception of the works of Albrecht Dürer. The author traces carefully how Dürer’s paintings, prints, drawings and theoretical writings traveled widely, and were appropriated into new contexts and charged with different meanings. The volume includes illustrations of numerous imitative works after Dürer.

Includes 13 colour and 81 b&w illustrations

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Susan Merriam, Bard College, USA

Natasha T. Seaman, Rhode Island College, USA The first in-depth study of Hendrick ter Brugghen to address questions beyond connoisseurship and attribution, this book illuminates the complex meanings of some of the Dutch master’s works. The author explores in particular Caravaggio’s influence, his use of archaism, and materiality in Ter Brugghen’s paintings. At the same time, she offers insights into the image debates and status of devotional art in Italy and Utrecht in the seventeenth century.

Includes 4 colour and 69 b&w illustrations and 1 map 194 pages 978-1-4094-3495-5

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Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters, Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem, this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. Susan Merriam explores how ultimately the genre served to re-cast the devotional picture in the wake of the iconoclasms of the Protestant Reformation.

Includes 28 colour and 31 b&w illustrations March 2012 Hardback

214 pages 978-1-4094-0305-0

Sharon Gregory, St Francis Xavier University, Canada A YANKEE BOOK PEDDLER US CORE TITLE FOR 2012

The Culture of the Visual Arts in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome Edited by Jill Burke, University of Edinburgh, UK Exploring how we can reconceptualise the High Renaissance in a way that reflects how we research and teach today, this volume proposes new approaches to the art of the period. Contributors focus on Rome, the paradigmatic centre of the High Renaissance narrative, as they question notions of periodisation, reconsider the Renaissance relationship with classical antiquity, and ultimately reconfigure our understanding of ‘high Renaissance style’.

In both Vasari’s life and in his Lives, prints played important roles. This volume examines Giorgio Vasari’s interest, as an art historian and as an artist, in engravings and woodblock prints, revealing how it sheds light on aspects of Vasari’s career, and on aspects of sixteenthcentury artistic culture and artistic practice. It is the first book to study his interest in prints from this dual perspective.

Includes 12 colour and 140 b&w illustrations July 2012 Hardback

460 pages 978-1-4094-2926-5

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402 pages 978-1-4094-2558-8

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Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice Edited by Alice E. Sanger and Siv Tove Kulbrandstad Walker Employing a wide range of approaches from various disciplines, contributors to this volume explore the diverse ways in which European art and cultural practice from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries confronted, interpreted, represented and evoked the realm of the sensual. Collectively, the essays gathered here form a survey of key debates and practices attached to the theme of the senses in Renaissance and Baroque art and cultural practice.

Includes 49 b&w illustrations June 2012 Hardback

276 pages 978-1-4094-0004-2

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Vasari and the Renaissance Print

Rethinking the High Renaissance

May 2012 Hardback

The Appropriation of Art, 1528–1700

282 pages 978-1-4094-3847-2

Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image

Includes 84 b&w illustrations

Reframing Albrecht Dürer

February 2013 Hardback

Reinventing Christian Painting after the Reformation in Utrecht

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Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands

268 pages 978-0-7546-6816-9

Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings

August 2012 Hardback

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

November 2011 Hardback

The Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen

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Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice

Paolo de Matteis

The Architecture of Santi Cosma e Damiano and its Decoration from Tintoretto to Tiepolo Benjamin Paul, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA ‘… beautifully produced book…’

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Arguing that Santi Cosma e Damiano was a reform convent, the author of this interdisciplinary study explores how its nuns employed art and architecture as a means to actively express their specific religious concerns. While focusing on the reconstruction of the history and construction of the convent, this study’s larger concern is with the religious reform movement, and with the convent as a space for female self-realization in early modern Venice.

Includes 9 colour and 93 b&w illustrations January 2012 Hardback

344 pages 978-1-4094-1186-4

£70.00

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WINNER, PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATION GRANT AND AUTHOR GRANT Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1631) devised dozens of panels comprised of pictures and Latin mottoes for the walls of her closet or study. The panels function as a ‘book’ of meditations to enable her – well-connected, wealthy, and well-educated as she was – to cope with the disappointments of her life. For the first time in 400 years, Meakin thoroughly investigates the personal, social, and intellectual contexts of Lady Drury’s closet.

Includes 64 colour and 31 b&w illustrations 368 pages 978-0-7546-6397-3

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‘This, the first monograph on Paolo de Matteis, an eccentric, erudite and various artist, redeems him from a hostile biographical tradition. Brilliantly re-appraising his subject, Pestilli shows how subtly the artist’s varied styles responded to patronal needs, and re-establishes de Matteis at the centre of all the splendour of the late Neapolitan Baroque.’

Helen Langdon, Former Assistant Director, British School at Rome 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, the book serves as a window into early eighteenth-century art and cultural history, not only in Naples but in Paris, Vienna, Genoa, and Rome.

Includes 108 colour and 112 b&w illustrations 502 pages 978-1-4094-4620-0

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Edited by Elizabeth L’Estrange, University of Birmingham, UK, and Alison More, Radboud University, Netherlands Engaging with current academic debates over the complexities and pluralities of gender identity in the Middle Ages, this volume is one of the first collections to show how the themes of gender construction, subversion and transformation are applicable to a wide range of fields. The methodologies used in this volume are relevant both to specialists of the Middle Ages and early modern periods, and to scholars working more broadly in fields that draw on contemporary gender studies.

Includes 20 b&w illustrations December 2011 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

218 pages 978-1-4094-0987-8 978-1-4094-0988-5 978-1-4094-8688-6

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Edited by Helen Hills, University of York, UK WINNER, PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATION GRANT

Essays on Comedy as Social Vision Edited by David R. Smith, University of New Hampshire, USA Dwelling on the interconnections between parody and festivity as forms of inversion, the essays in this volume delve into the nature and the meanings of festive laughter as depicted in early modern art. Chapters deal most often with Northern Renaissance and Baroque art; themes include grobianism and the grotesque, scatology, popular proverbs with ironic twists, and a wide range of comic reversals, many hinging on ideas of the world upside down.

May 2012 Hardback

220 pages 978-1-4094-3030-8

Retrieving the term ‘baroque’ from the margins of art history, scholars from a range of disciplines demonstrate that it is a productive means to engage with art history and theory. Rather than attempting to provide a survey of baroque as a chronological or geographical conception, the essays here attempt critical re-engagement with the term ‘baroque’-its promise, its limits, and its overlooked potential-in relation to the visual arts.

Includes 25 colour and 34 b&w illustrations August 2011 Hardback

286 pages 978-0-7546-6685-1

£65.00

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Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65 Richard Anthony Cooper, Oxford University, UK

The Renaissance and the Ottoman World

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H.L. Meakin, University of South Florida, USA

October 2013 Hardback

Livio Pestilli, Trinity College, Rome Campus, Italy

April 2013 Hardback

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury

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Edited by Anna Contadini, SOAS, University of London, UK and Claire Norton, St Mary’s University College, UK The fourteen articles in this volume bring together some of the latest research on the cultural, intellectual and commercial interactions during the Renaissance between Western Europe and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Ottoman Empire. The articles contribute to an exciting cross-cultural and inter-disciplinary scholarly dialogue that explores elements of continuity and exchange between the two areas, and positions the Ottoman Empire as an integral element of the geo-political and cultural continuum within which the Renaissance evolved.

Making use of new and original material based on first-hand sources, this book interrogates the vogue for collecting, discussing, depicting and putting to political and cultural use Roman antiquities in the French Renaissance. It surveys a range of activity from the labours of collectors and patrons to royal entries, considers attacks on the craze for the antique, and sets literary instances among a much wider spectrum of artistic endeavour.

Includes 53 b&w illustrations September 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

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Includes 43 colour and 39 b&w illustrations October 2013 Hardback

290 pages 978-1-4724-0991-1

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Roscoe and Italy The Reception of Italian Renaissance History and Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Edited by Stella Fletcher In 1795 William Roscoe (1753–1831) published a biography of Lorenzo de’ Medici, which proved so popular that it prompted claims that Roscoe had effectively invented the Italian Renaissance as it has been known by subsequent generations of readers in the English-speaking world.

Despite such enthusiastic assertions, however, this collection of essays is the first systematic attempt to examine Roscoe and his contribution towards modern conceptions of the Renaissance. Covering a range of subjects from art history and literature, to politics and culture, the volume provides a fascinating picture both of Roscoe and his historical legacy.

Includes 17 b&w illustrations November 2012 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

266 pages 978-1-4094-0491-0 978-1-4094-5380-2 978-1-4094-7126-4

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St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art

Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature

Case Studies in Patronage

Katherine Acheson, University of Waterloo, Canada

Cynthia Stollhans, St. Louis University, USA

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‘Situated within the evolution and tradition of St. Catherine scholarship and offering a tightly-focused examination of the cult in a specific time and place, Stollhans delves deeply into the issue of artistic patronage in Renaissance Rome, examining the ways in which various patrons used and referenced Catherine’s cult to forward their own agendas and formulate their public identities … a fascinating study of the uses and applications of the Catherine cult.’

Scott B. Montgomery, University of Denver, USA How and why did a medieval female saint from the Eastern Mediterranean come to be such a powerful symbol in early modern Rome? This study provides an overview of the development of the cult of Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Rome, and explores how her imagery was used to support the religious, political, and/or social agendas of individual patrons and religious orders.

Includes 8 colour and 38 b&w illustrations

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Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain

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Kelley Helmstutler Di Dio, University of Vermont, USA and Rosario Coppel Firmly grounded in archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in the country during the period, which until now has been erroneously characterized as close to nonexistent.

This study reveals the importance of sculpture as a status symbol among nobles, humanists and artists, thus redefining the socio-political and art historical significance of the medium in the culture.

Includes 20 b&w illustrations November 2013 Hardback ebook PDF ebook ePUB

400 pages 978-1-4094-6904-9 978-1-4094-6905-6 978-1-4094-6906-3

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200 pages 978-1-4094-4751-1

£55.00

The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages Essays on Mediaeval Fonts, Settings and Beliefs Edited by Harriet M. Sonne de Torrens and Miguel A. Torrens Under the guidance of the leading experts on baptismal fonts this collection of essays by a group of European and North American scholars extends the traditional boundaries associated with the study of baptismal fonts. Previous scholarship about baptismal fonts has often focused on the purely stylistic, iconographical and liturgical perspectives, using primarily ecclesiastical and liturgical documentation. This book shows the wealth of new information that baptismal fonts can offer when scholars adopt interdisciplinary approaches and engage in readings that question traditional assumptions inherited in scholarship.

‘Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature is breathtaking in its scope, taking a material, spatial, and visual approach to early modern literature.

While theoretically sophisticated in its approach, the lucidly written text and lavish illustrations illuminate contemporary meanings behind the non-pictorial image in early modern texts, while at the same time developing a language for evaluating and describing them. Acheson maps this new language and knowledge onto some of the central canons of English literature, leading to some rich new interpretations of well-known works by John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Aphra Behn. This book is a delight to read and will certainly be of use to any student or scholar of early modern mentalities.’

Angela McShane, Victoria & Albert Museum Considering the variety of charts, diagrams and other kinds of images with which early modern printed books are copiously illustrated, this volume interrogates how visual rhetoric affected verbal expression. The genres of illustration considered include military strategy and tactics, garden design, instrumentation, Bibles, scientific schema, drawing instruction, natural history, comparative anatomy and Aesop’s Fables. The book develops novel methods of using printed images as evidence in the interpretation of the rich, strange and beautiful literature of early modern England.

Includes 40 b&w illustrations July 2013 Hardback

178 pages 978-0-7546-6283-9

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230 pages 978-1-4094-5675-9

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SERIES WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD Series Editors: Allyson Poska and Abby Zanger The study of women and gender offers some of the most vital and innovative challenges to current scholarship on the early modern period. For more than a decade now, Women and Gender in the Early Modern World has served as a forum for presenting fresh ideas and original approaches to the field. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary in scope, this Ashgate series strives to reach beyond geographical limitations to explore the experiences of early modern women and the nature of gender in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Africa.

We welcome proposals for both single-author volumes and edited collections which expand and develop this continually evolving field of study.

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Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany

Medieval and Renaissance Lactations

Alice Sanger

Edited by Jutta Gisela Sperling, Hampshire College, USA

Images, Rhetorics, Practices

Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries Sally Anne Hickson, University of Guelph, Canada

Positing Medici women’s patronage as a network of devotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities that depended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuses on the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medici court of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries. By examining the religious dimensions of the Medici grand duchesses’ art patronage and collecting activities alongside their visually resonant devotional and public acts, this book adds a new dimension to the current scholarship on women’s patronage in early modern Italy.

The premise of this volume is that the ubiquity of lactation imagery in early modern visual culture and the discourse on breastfeeding in humanist, religious, medical, and literary writings is a distinct cultural phenomenon that deserves systematic study. Chapters by art historians, social and legal historians, historians of science, and literary scholars explore ambiguities and contradictions surrounding the issue, and offer tools to support further research on the topic.

Includes 4 colour and 19 b&w illustrations

Includes 30 b&w illustrations

December 2013 Hardback

160 pages 978-1-4094-0079-0

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Sarah D.P. Cockram, University of Edinburgh, UK In this first full length scholarly study of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga, Sarah Cockram casts new light on a long misunderstood relationship and shows the couple’s strategic teamwork in action. Drawing on largely unpublished archival material, she illuminates tactics of collaboration and double-dealing. She reveals sharing of authority; behind-the-scenes diplomatic activity; epistolary practices and dissimulation; networkbuilding; sexual politics and seduction; court rivalries; Machiavellian intrigues and assassinations.

Includes 11 b&w illustrations and 2 maps 300 pages 978-1-4094-4831-0 978-1-4094-4832-7 978-1-4724-0637-8

250 pages 978-1-4094-4860-0 978-1-4094-4861-7 978-1-4094-6988-9

Combining primary archival research, contextual analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination of a number of visual objects, this study sheds new light on the social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics of Mantua in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It offers new insight into a complex world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious roles for women inside and outside the convent walls.

Includes 21 b&w illustrations

£60.00

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Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy

Power Sharing at the Italian Renaissance Court

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Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua

Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage Edited by Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA By looking in a new way at works of art and acts of patronage, the volume restores to visibility some women who were previously invisible in the historical record, and offers a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.

Includes 57 b&w illustrations January 2012 Hardback

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Acheson, Katherine..........................................................9 Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings (c. 1500)..............2 Architecture and Pilgrimage, 1100-1500.........................2 Architecture, Art and Identity in Venice and its Territories, 1450-1750....................................................2 Arma Christi in Medieval and Early Modern Material Culture, The..................................................................2 Art and the Relic Cult of St. Antoninus in Renaissance Florence..................................................6 Art as Politics in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena ............................................................................2 Art, Gender and Religious Devotion in Grand Ducal Tuscany.......................................................................10 Art of Religion, The...........................................................2 Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari...........2 Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous, The...........................................................3 Avcioglu, Nebahat............................................................2

Fate, Glory, and Love in Early Modern Gallery Decoration....................................................................4 Feeser, Andrea..................................................................5 Festive Funerals in Early Modern Italy............................6 Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599–1652).........6 Fletcher, Stella..................................................................9

Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury, The.............8 Paolo de Matteis................................................................8 Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art.......................8 Paul, Benjamin.................................................................8 Performativity and Performance in Baroque Rome ......6 Pestilli, Livio......................................................................8 Peterson, Jeanette Favrot................................................3 Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Early Modern Dinner Party..................................................................7 Pieter Bruegel the Elder ...................................................7 Poska, Allyson.................................................................10 Pullan, Wendy...................................................................2

B Bakker, Boudewijn...........................................................5 Barber, Malcolm.....................................................3, 6, 10 Beholding Violence in Medieval and Early Modern Europe...........................................................................6 Bentley, Tamara Heimarck..............................................6 Beusterien, John..............................................................4 Bubenik, Andrea...............................................................7 Burke, Jill...........................................................................7 Byzantine Art and Renaissance Europe.........................3

C Calaresu, Melissa.............................................................5 Campbell, Erin J...............................................................6 Canines in Cervantes and Velázquez..............................4 Cast, David J.....................................................................2 Cockram, Sarah D.P.......................................................10 Consavari, Elizabeth Carroll............................................6 Contadini, Anna................................................................8 Cooper, Lisa H...................................................................2 Cooper, Richard Anthony................................................8 Coppel, Rosario................................................................9 Cornelison, Sally J............................................................6 Crowe, Nicholas J............................................................5

D Davies, Paul.......................................................................2 Delbeke, Maarten.............................................................2 Dendle, Peter....................................................................3 Denny-Brown, Andrea.....................................................2 Dillon, Anne.......................................................................5 Dio, Kelley Helmstutler Di..............................................9 Duerloo, Luc......................................................................4 Duits, Rembrandt ............................................................3 Dynastic Marriages 1612/1615.........................................4 Dynasty and Piety.............................................................4

E Early Modern Dutch Prints of Africa...............................3 Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior, 1400–1700.......6 Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art.....................................4

G Gillgren, Peter...................................................................6 Goggin, Maureen Daly.....................................................5 Goldstein, Claudia............................................................7 Gregory, Sharon............................................................6, 7

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Reframing Albrecht Dürer................................................7 Religious Paintings of Hendrick ter Brugghen, The......7 Renaissance and the Ottoman World, The.....................8 Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe.......................................................................8 Rethinking the Baroque...................................................8 Rethinking the High Renaissance..................................7 Richardson, Todd M.........................................................7 Roman Antiquities in Renaissance France, 1515–65.....8 Roscoe and Italy................................................................9

Imperial Augsburg............................................................4 Inganno – The Art of Deception.......................................6 Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga......................10

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Harper, James G...............................................................3 Hickson, Sally Anne ..................................................6, 10 Hills, Helen....................................................................5, 8 Howard, Deborah.............................................................2

J Jecmen, Gregory..............................................................4 Jeremias Drexel’s ‘Christian Zodiac’...............................5 Jones, Ann Rosalind........................................................3 Jones, Emma.....................................................................2

K Karet, Evelyn.....................................................................2

L Labbie, Erin Felicia...........................................................6 Lagerlöf, Margaretha........................................................4 Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt ...................................................................5 Lee, Christina H................................................................3 Leibsohn, Dana.................................................................3 Leoni, Francesca...............................................................4 L’Estrange, Elizabeth........................................................8 Levy, Allison.......................................................................6 Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe..................5 Lymberopoulou, Angeliki ...............................................3

M Materiality of Color, The...................................................5 McGowan, Margaret M....................................................4 McIver, Katherine A. ......................................................10 Meakin, H.L.......................................................................8 Merriam, Susan................................................................7 Michelangelo and the English Martyrs..........................5 Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico...........................................................................3 Miller, Stephanie R...........................................................6 Mittman, Asa Simon........................................................3 More, Alison......................................................................8

N Natif, Mika ........................................................................4 New Approaches to Naples c.1500 – c.1800...................5 Norton, Claire....................................................................8 Nuns and Reform Art in Early Modern Venice...............8

Sanger, Alice E............................................................7, 10 Schraven, Minou...............................................................6 Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain................9 Seaman, Natasha T. ........................................................7 Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World.......3 Sense and the Senses in Early Modern Art and Cultural Practice...........................................................7 Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings ........7 Singh, Jyotsna..................................................................3 Smith, David R..................................................................8 Smith, Timothy B..............................................................2 Snickare, Mårten..............................................................6 Spicer, Andrew..................................................................5 Spira, Freyda.....................................................................4 St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Roman Art.....................................................................9 Steinhoff, Judith B...........................................................2 Stollhans, Cynthia............................................................9 Sutton, Elizabeth A...........................................................3 Suzuki, Mihoko.................................................................3

T Terry-Fritsch, Allie.............................................................6 Tobin, Beth Fowkes..........................................................5 Torrens, Harriet M. Sonne de..........................................9 Torrens, Miguel A.............................................................9 Torres, Mónica Domínguez.............................................3 Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750, The......3

V Vasari and the Renaissance Print....................................6 Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages, The......9 Visual Rhetoric and Early Modern English Literature.....9

W Walker, Siv Tove Kulbrandstad.......................................7 Western Visions of the Far East in a Transpacific Age, 1522–1657.............................................................3 Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy................................................................10 Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua.................................................10

Z Zanger, Abby...................................................................10

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