"The essays in Space, Image and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall's seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church interior, the altarpiece's facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform. Accruing the advantage of critical engagement with a single paradigm, this volume better assesses its applicability and range. The book works cumulatively to provide blocks of theoretical and empirical research on issues spanning the function and role of images in their contexts over two centuries. Relating Hall's investigations of Renaissance art to new fields, Space, Image and Reform expands the ideas at the center of her work further back in time, further afield, and deeper into familiar topics, thus achieving a cohesion not usually seen in edited volumes honoring a single scholar."--Page 4 of cover.
Space, image, and reform in early modern art
Part 1. Historiography and Methods. Raphael's Bankers: Agostino Chigi, Bindo Altoviti, Jakob Fugger / Ingrid Rowland ; Surpassing Nature: Raphael's Artistic Apotheosis / Tamara Smithers ; In the Sistine Chapel with Marcia and Leo / Ian Verstegen ; What Becomes a Legend: Correggio at the Crossroads of Biography and Style / Maureen Pelta -- Part 2. Space. The Rediscovered Iconography of Palazzo Milesi's Fȧade by Polidoro da Caravaggio, Plutarch's Parallel Lives, and a New Drawing / Constanza Barbieri ; San Giacomo degli Spagnoli in Rome on the Forefront of Reform: Remodeling the East End in the 1550s and 1560s / Rose Marie May ; Religious Reform, Sacred Space, and Bad Behavior in Late Sixteenth-Century Orsanmichele / Joanne Allen -- Part 3. Image. Matter and Meaning in Piero della Francesca's Legend of the True Cross / Sarah K. Kozlowski ; The Netherlandish Relief-like Style in the Age of Art / Arthur J.DiFuria ; Mannerism's Masks / Stuart Lingo -- Part 4. Reform. Order and the Anagogic Approach of the Mind to God: On the Philosophers in Raphael's Disputa / Jonathan Kline ; Painting the Invisible God at Sinai / Larry Silver ; A Question of Faith: "Making Strange" in Caravaggio's Calling of Saint Matthew / Anne H. Muraoka -- Part 5, Back Matter. A Bibliography of Marcia Hall's Works.
Studies in medieval and early modern culture ;