Art, piety and destruction in the Christian West

1500-1700

Ed. Virginia Chieffo Raguin. Spanning two centuries and two continents, "Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500-1700" addresses the impact of religious tensions on art, design, and architecture in the early modern world. Beyond famous works of art such as Kraft's "Eucharistic ...

Renaissance theories of vision

Eds. John Shannon Hendrix, Charles H. Carman. How are processes of vision, perception, and sensation conceived in the Renaissance? How are those conceptions made manifest in the arts? The essays in this volume address these and similar questions to establish important theoretical and philosophical bases ...

The late paintings of Velázquez

theorizing painterly performance

The startling conclusion of The Late Paintings of Velázquez is that Diego Velázquez painted two of his most famous works, The Spinners and Las Meninas, as theoretically informed manifestos of painterly brushwork. As a pair, Giles Knox argues, the two paintings form a learned retort ...