Book description
A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse,
fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key
issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that
might be termed the beginning of modern history.
- Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art
experts that address various aspects of European visual arts
produced from circa 1300 to 1700
- Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-Historical
Factors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Stature
of the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message:
Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and the
Historian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse
- Covers many topics not typically included in collections of this
nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises, the
global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and the arts,
art and religion, and gender and sexuality
- Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality and
gender, and the art and production of tapestries,
conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater
- Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory's
interactions with neighboring civilizations and distant discoveries
- Includes illustrations as well as links to images not included in
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Babette Bohn
is Professor of Art History at Texas Christian University. Her
publications include two books on Italian prints,
Agostino Carracci
(1995) and
Italian Masters of the Sixteenth Century
(1996), and two on the drawings of
Ludovico Carracci
(2004) and
Guido Reni
(2008).
James M. Saslow is Professor of Art History, Theatre, and
Renaissance Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City
University of New York. His most recent book, Pictures and
Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts (1999),
received two awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation.
