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Art & Architectural History The Age of Opus Anglicanum Colour A Symposium The Art and Science of edited by Michael A. Michael Illuminated Manuscripts The essays included here break new by S. Panayotova ground in the understanding of both The focus of the exciting and innova- liturgical and secular embroidery, tive exhibition to which this is the covering topics such as interesting companion volume is on color: it iconographic aspects found in Opus demonstrates and explains the acqui- Anglicanum; hitherto unpublished Limited quantity sition and chemistry of pigments, the data from the royal accounts of Edward Available while stocks last basic materials and constitution of the III related to commissions and pay- artist’s color palette, the technique ments to embroidery specialists and a detailed study of late medieval English and art of their application by the illuminator, and finally the understanding palls accompanied by a Handlist of the major extant examples. and aesthetic impact on the viewer. 240p, over 200 col illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, October 2016, Studies in 420p, 414 col illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, June 2016, Studies in Medieval and English Medieval Embroidery 1) hardcover, 9781909400412, $143.00. Early Renaissance Art History) paperback, 9781909400573, $65.00. Special Offer $115.00 Special Offer $52.00 Works in Collaboration Portraits After Existing Prototypes Jan Brueghel I & II by Koenraad Jonckheere by Christine van Mulders Rubens was mesmerized by faces. He studied physiognomy, Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder were collabo- which postulated that a person’s character could be read rating as painters as early as c. 1598, before Rubens’s stay in from their facial features. His best portrait copies, thus, are Italy, but the most important period of their alliance spans not strictly copies but rather studies in which art history, from 1609 to 1621. The collaborative oeuvre of Rubens and craftsmanship, literature and theory merge into an emula- Brueghel can be roughly divided into three groups: Madonnas tion of art and nature. They are works in which the artist was in garlands of flowers, interiors with allegories, and land- looking for man in all of his myriad facets, and the perspec- scapes with mythological and religious themes. tives art afforded to better understand man. 360p, 40 col & 120 b/w illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, 340p, illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, December 2016, October 2016, Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard 27.1) hardcover, 9781909400436, $195.00. Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard 19.4) hardcover, Special Offer $156.00 9781909400580, $195.00. Special Offer $156.00 70 Enterprise Drive, Suite 2 • Bristol, CT 06010, USA Distributor of phone: (+1) 860 584 6546 • fax: (+1) 860 516 4873 Scholarly Books www.isdistribution.com • [email protected] Drawing and the Senses Pleasure and Politics An Early Modern History at the Court of France by Caroline Fowler The Artistic Patronage of Queen Jusepe Ribera, Guercino, Stefano Marie de Brabant (1260–1321) della Bella, Abraham Bloemaert, and by Tracy Hamilton Peter Paul Rubens all created printed For her commissioning and perfor- drawing lessons dedicated to the mance of a French vernacular version practice and theory of drawing. As of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and this book argues, these were not only One Nights, as well as for her numerous pedagogical treatises on practice but other commissions, Queen Marie de also theoretical works on draftsman- Brabant (1260–1321) was heralded ship made by the most influential European draftsmen. This book is the first as a literary and intellectual patron comparable to Alexander the Great theoretical consideration of these major works. Reading these treatises in and Charlemagne. Nevertheless, classic studies of the late medieval period the context of an early modern intellectual history of the senses, the book understate Marie’s connection to the contemporary rise of secular interests at examines how artists visually theorized the process of producing knowledge the French court. By reshaping the inquiry into court patronage, this volume through making lines on a page. Beginning with the pedagogical treatises of posits that the historical record reveals exciting and important contributions Albrecht Dürer and progressing through the pedagogical writings, drawings, Marie de Brabant made to this burgeoning secular court. This emerging and printed drawing books of early-modern draftsmen, this book traces a importance of the secular and redefinition of the sacred during these last history of the senses and drawing, demonstrating how shifting concepts of decades of Capetian rule becomes all the more striking when juxtaposed to the body, divinity and god changed the processes by which artists conceived the pious tone of the lengthy reign of Louis IX. of drawing the world, themselves and others. 300p, illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, March 2017, Studies in Medieval 300p, 20 col & 80 b/w illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, January 2017, Studies in and Early Renaissance Art History 64) hardcover, 9781905375684, Baroque Art 6) hardcover, 9781909400399, $151.00. Special Offer $121.00 $133.00. Special Offer $107.00 Eye and Art in Ancient Greece Felsina Pittrice Studies in Archaeoaesthetics Life of Marcantonio Raimondi and Critical Catalogue of Prints by Christopher Witcombe by or after Bolognese Masters This volume examines the art of ancient Greece through reconstructions of by Carlo Cesare Malvasia, edited by Elizabeth Cropper how the Greeks saw and understood the products of their own visual culture. and Lorenzo Pericolo The material is approached using a newly developed methodology of ar- chaeoaesthetics by which past modes of vision and perception are examined Malvasia’s life of Marcantonio Raimondi includes Malvasia’s critical cata- in conjunction with prevailing notions of pleasure and judgment with the logue of prints by or after Bolognese artists, from Giulio Bonasone to Giovan purpose of identifying the visual and psychological contexts within which Battista Pasqualini. A great connoisseur and avid collector of prints, Malvasia the aesthetics of a culture emerge. Through a wide-ranging examination of recognizes the intelligence and novelty inherent in Giorgio Vasari’s life of ideas found in early written sources, the book examines various key aspects of Marcantonio with its list of prints produced by the Bolognese engraver. Aware Greek visual culture, such as continuity and change, nudity, identity, lifelike- of the interest of amateurs and collectors in identifying old and new prints, ness, mimesis, personation and enactment, symmetria, dance, harmony, establishing their states, and building up an exhaustive collection, Malvasia and the modal representation of emotions, with the aim of comprehending undertakes the groundbreaking task of describing the whole corpus of prints how and why choices were made in the conception and making of artifacts. executed by or after Bolognese masters as far as he could determine. He Special attention is given to factors contributing to the formation of taste and describes the subjects of these works accurately, transcribes their inscriptions, the emergence and transmission over time of concepts of art and beauty and specifies their techniques, supplying their measurements in Bolognese once. the means by which they were identified and judged. 2 vols, 700p, 850 col illus (Brepols Publishers, February 2017, Felsina Pittrice: The Lives of the Bolognese Painters 2) hardcover, 250p, illus (Harvey Miller Publishers, March 2017, Eye and Art) hardcover, 9781909400665, $301.00. Special Offer $241.00 9781909400030, $97.00. Special Offer $78.00 2 www.isdistribution.com Quote promotional code 795–17 for Special Offers (+1) (860) 584 6546 Birds, Other Animals and Natural Curiosities by Henrietta McBurney, Paula Findlen, Caterina Napoleone, Ian Rolfe and Arthur MacGregor This catalogue brings together some of the finest natural history drawings executed for Cassiano. Cassiano had a particular inter- est in ornithology, and birds are thus the best-represented members of the animal kingdom in this group. Other drawings of fauna catalogued here include mammals, fishes and crustaceans. Like the bird drawings, many are drawn with painstaking attention to detail and scale, a complete specimen drawn on a reduced scale to fit the sheet, with anatomical details depicted life size. The drawings of mineral specimens and other natural curiosities depict the sort of item commonly found in seventeenth-century collectors’ cabinets. 2 vols, 864p, 314 col illus (Brepols Publishers, February 2017, The Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo. Series B: Natural History 4) hardcover, 9781909400603, $213.00. Special Offer $171.00 The Antichità Diverse Album The Print Collection of Cassiano dal Pozzo. I by Elena Vaiani Ceremonies, Costumes, Portraits and Genre Cassiano’s Antichità Diverse album by Mark McDonald survives almost intact in the Royal Library Cassiano dal Pozzo’s print collection was unique in its scope and organization. at Windsor Castle. It is a compendium Some 3,000 prints are known, in nine albums and many loose impressions of pen-and-wash drawings of Roman mainly divided between the British Library and the Royal Library at Windsor antiquities, including jewelry, amulets, Castle. The material he collected was essentially documentary, and he orga- weights and measures, vases and lamps, nized the collection by subject matter. This first part of the full print catalogue tripods,