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Antwerp in the Renaissance Transregional Territories Bruno Blondé, Jeroen Puttevils (eds) Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond Bram De Ridder, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, Sophie Verreyken (eds) This book engages with Antwerp in the Renaissance. Bringing together several specialists of sixteenth-century Antwerp, it o�fers By focussing on the border regions of the Spanish Habsburg Low new research results and fresh perspectives on the economic, Countries, and by exploring interactions in and beyond these cultural and social history of the metropolis in the sixteenth borderlands, the chapters shed light on how humans in the past century. Recurrent themes are the creative ways in which the created, handled and surpassed the territorial boundaries they Italian renaissance was translated in the Antwerp context. encountered. This approach reveals how early modern borders functioned not only as areas of communication and movement, but also as barriers that hindered or impeded cross-border exchanges.

approx. 350 p., 178 x 254 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58833-9 Hardback: approx. € 85 / $ 111.00 approx. 252 p., 7 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58493-5 Series: Studies in European Urban History (1100-1800), vol. 49 Paperback: € 64 / $ 84.00 FORTHCOMING Series: Habsburg Worlds, vol. 2 FORTHCOMING

Faith and Knowledge in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scandinavia Sacred Images and Normativity Contested Forms in Early Modern Art Karoline Kjesrud, Mikael Males (eds) Chiara Franceschini (ed.) Covering the late medieval up to the early modern period, this Renaissance Studies volume o�fers new insights into intellectual culture in Scandinavia, This volume “Contested forms” aims to provide a ﬁ rst exploration and the remarkable longevity of local beliefs even into the early of image normativity by means of a series of case studies, which post-Reformation period. will focus in di�ferent ways on the intersections between the limits of the sacred image and the power of art, especially but not exclusively in Europe, between 1450 and 1650. Each essay will approach the question of normativity in sacred images from Highlights di�ferent perspectives. 306 p., 19 col. ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-57900-9 Hardback: € 95 / $124.00 Spring 2020 Series: Knowledge, Scholarship, and Science in the Middle Ages, vol. 1 approx. € 280 p., 80 b/w ills, 30 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, ISBN 978-2-503-58466-9 Hardback: approx. € 115 / $150.00 Series: The Normativity of Sacred Images in Early Modern Europe, vol. 1 FORTHCOMING Transmission of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance Outi Merisalo, Susanna Niiranen, Miika Kuha (eds)

This volume explores the Late Medieval and Renaissance transmission of texts of di�ferent genres, languages and periods from the book historical point of view, taking into consideration not only the textual but also the material aspect of the traditions.

239 p., 19 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58156-9 Paperback: € 80 Series: Bibliologia, vol. 53

Music and Theology in the European Reformations Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540 David Burn, Grantley Robert McDonald, Joseph Verheyden, Peter De Mey (eds) Tim Shephard, Sanna Raninen, Serenella Sessini, Laura Stefanescu A multidisciplinary collection of twenty essays that examine the debates and controversies around music and theology during The ﬁ rst detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, the period of the European Reformations from both Catholic and opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the various Protestant perspectives. ﬁ �teenth and early sixteenth centuries.

approx. 400 p., 227 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554-02-7 Hardback: approx. € 125 / $163.00 Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History FORTHCOMING 500 p., 33 b/w ills, 178 x 254 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58226-9 Paperback: € 100 / $130.00 Series: Epitome musical Prices excl. VAT & shipping.

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brepols_folder_RSA_2020_11x17inch_v4.indd 1 8/03/20 13:22 Painting as a Modern Art in Early Renaissance Italy Art Moves Robert Brennan The Material Culture of Processions in Renaissance Perugia Pascale Rihouet, Jean-Claude Schmitt (intro.) Concepts of modernity have played a constitutive role in the canon of European art history at least since Giorgio Vasari, who Art Moves reconstructs the appearance and conditions of use of looked back upon Giotto as the founder of “modern art” (arte processional artifacts, whether they were worn (uniforms and moderna). The aim of this book is to establish a prehistory of liveries), held by individuals, (maces, �lags, and candles), or Vasari’s view. Was Vasari merely projecting a sixteenth-century carried communally (canopy, reliquaries, banners, or statues). concept of artistic modernity onto the fourteenth and ﬁ �teenth It investigates how objects were charged with meaning from centuries, or were the artists of that period guided by some notion medium and fabrication to market value to size and weight. In of modernity as well? doing so, it o�fers a new way of looking at the dynamics of urban processions while revivifying the sensory experience of public life in Italy, ca. 1350-1600.

366 p., 11 b/w ills, 115 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554- iv + 323 p., 69 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, 00-3 ISBN 978-1-909400-83-2 Hardback: € 125 / $163.00 Hardback: € 110 / $143.00 Arrayed in Splendour Renaissance Illuminators in Paris Series: Renovatio Artium, vol. 3 Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History Artists & Artisans 1500-1715 Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe Richard H. Rouse, Mary A. Rouse Christoph Brachmann (ed.)

The commercial manuscript book-trade in Paris, that had begun as early as the mid-12th Ranging from the twel�th to the seventeenth centuries, this collection of essays of leading century, was severely disrupted by the arrival of the fi rst printing presses in Paris around Andrea Mantegna Cultures du spectacle baroque scholars in the fi eld o�fers an invaluable window into the complexity of the textile arts 1475. This publication traces the activities to which 16th- and 17th-century book artisans Humanist Aesthetics, Faith, and the Force of Images Cadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses and their medium, from the overpowering splendour of liturgical and princely garments and the luxurious fabrics used for them in the Middle Ages and early modern period, to had to turn, faced as they were with a dwindling market for manuscripts. In addition to Stephen Campbell entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas the richly illustrated text, the volume also includes a Register of more than 500 named the visual world of monumental room decorations in the form of tapestries. Ralph Dekoninck, Maarten Delbeke, Annick Delfosse, Caroline Heering, Koen Vermeir (éd.) Illuminators in alphabetical order, giving also their a�fi liation to their alternative trades This book re-examines the career of one socially and intellectually and listing personal details including family members and professional associates. ambitious artist, Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) and his intellectual 264 p., 3 b/w ills, 111 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-57965-8 Le présent volume se donne pour ambition de renouveler network, to re-open questions of the locations of humanism, the Paperback: € 100 / $ 130.00 l’analyse historique et théorique des solennités spectaculaires notion of “humanist art,” or painting as a form of discourse that Published outside a Series en s’intéressant tout particulièrement aux e�fets produits par les 280 p., 65 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, far from being ancillary to poetry, history, or rhetoric, served as a dispositifs déployés lors de ce type de manifestations. ISBN 978-1-912554-28-7 model for all three. Hardback: € 125 / $163.00 Series: A Survey of Manuscripts Illuminated in France, vol. 5 approx. 320 p., 150 col. ills, 220 x 300 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-1-912554-34-8 Hardback: € 100 / $ 130.00 Undressing Rubens Series: Renovatio Artium, vol. 8 364 p., 190 x 255 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-90-74461-93-1 FORTHCOMING Paperback: € 85 Fashion and Painting in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp Série: Artes, vol. 10 Abigail Newman, Lieneke Nijkamp (eds)

The essays collected in this volume meet at a point of convergence Comparing Two Italies between costume, art, and history, and focus on the seventeenth- Civic Tradition, Trade Networks, Family Relationships between the century Southern Netherlands. Undressing Rubens looks at the signifi cance of costume in life and art in the age of Rubens, Italy of Communes and the Kingdom of Sicily confi rming that this is hardly an insular topic. Stretching back Patrizia Mainoni, Nicola Lorenzo Barile (eds) several centuries to provide critical context and points of origin for many seventeenth-century practices and ideas, the innovative Recalling David Abulafi a’s 1977 book The Two Italies, about the research presented here also points forward in time, dealing with origins of the so-called ‘unequal exchange’ and ‘dual economy’ implications in later centuries but also, in many cases, engaging between Northern and Southern Italy, this collection of essays directly with questions of historiography still quite relevant today. points to di�ferent interpretative paths, which concern not only trade networks, but also less well-known aspects of the interrelation, such as the rise of civic tradition, the spread of 232 p., 3 b/w ills, 136 col. ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-912554-22-5 Mendicant Orders, and the circulation of wealth through family Hardback: € 135 / $ 176.00 relationships, women, marriage and patrimonial assets. Published outside a Series

approx. 260 p., 3 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-56976-5 Hardback: approx. € 90 / $117.00 Series: Mediterranean Nexus 1100-1700, vol. 7 Festival and Violence FORTHCOMING Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina Pittrice Borman Princely Entries in the Context of War, 1480-1635 or The Lives of the Bolognese Painters A Family of Northern Renaissance Sculptors Margaret McGowan Life of Guido Reni Marjan Debaene (ed.) Convent Networks in Early Modern Italy European Renaissance Festivals are noted for their extravagance, for their inherited Elizabeth Cropper and Lorenzo Pericolo (eds) This late-medieval sculptor managed a busy workshop in Brussels, Saundra Weddle, Marilyn Dunn (eds) classical culture, and as evidence of how court and civic spectacles could express political, religious, social, and economic aspirations. In this new monograph, the accent is fi rmly Celebrated by Malvasia as the creator and promoter of the new maniera moderna, Guido with commissions pouring in from religious institutions as well as on the violent context of Magnifi cence: it examines how war a�fected the minds and Reni (1575–1642) introduces the fourth age of painting: a period marked by an original and from the bourgeoisie and princely rulers. He trained his sons Jan III Interdisciplinary essays that examine the connections of early practice of both artists and princes, and shows how victims and their su�fering were as sometimes bold elaboration of the notion of artistic perfection developed by the Carracci and Passchier to become master sculptors a�ter his own example modern Italian convents, and how these networks were expressed prominent in festival as were conquerors and their projections of victory. and embodied more specifi cally by Ludovico’s “synthesis of styles.” Based on a radical and to have at least as shrewd a head for business as he himself. through texts, art, architecture, music, gi�t and favour exchange, real reassessment of the historical documentation and a profound investigation of Malvasia’s Borman was a virtuoso, a master but above all an innovator, who estate development, and other modes of expression. art criticism, these volumes o�fer the most thorough treatment to date of the artist’s work. in�luenced many other sculptors. This book gathers essays by leading academics and presents a summary catalogue of all works attributed to the Borman family. 303 p., 48 b/w ills, 9 col. ills, 178 x 254 mm, 2019, 2 vols. 1152 p., 367 col. ills, 9 b/w ills, 220 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-909400-69-6 ISBN 978-2-503-58333-4 Hardback: € 350 / $455.00 Series: Carlo Cesare Malvasia’s Felsina Pittrice or The Lives of the Bolognese Painters, vol. 9 312 p., 560 col. ills, 240 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-1-912554-41-6 approx. 325 p., 35 b/w ills, 156 x 234 mm, 2020, ISBN 978-2-503-58607-6 Hardback: € 85 / $111.00 Hardback: € 100 / $130.00 Hardback: € 85 / $111.00 Series: European Festival Studies: 1450-1700 Series: Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History Series: Europa Sacra, vol. 25 FORTHCOMING

Cover image: Domenico del Barbiere / Michelangelo Buonarroti, Group from Last Judgment, St. Bartholomew, St. Peter, and other Apostles Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

brepols_folder_RSA_2020_11x17inch_v4.indd 2 8/03/20 13:22 Antwerp in the Renaissance Transregional Territories Bruno Blondé, Jeroen Puttevils (eds) Crossing Borders in the Early Modern Low Countries and Beyond Bram De Ridder, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, Sophie Verreyken (eds) This book engages with Antwerp in the Renaissance. Bringing together several specialists of sixteenth-century Antwerp, it o�fers By focussing on the border regions of the Spanish Habsburg Low new research results and fresh perspectives on the economic, Countries, and by exploring interactions in and beyond these cultural and social history of the metropolis in the sixteenth borderlands, the chapters shed light on how humans in the past century. Recurrent themes are the creative ways in which the created, handled and surpassed the territorial boundaries they Italian renaissance was translated in the Antwerp context. encountered. This approach reveals how early modern borders functioned not only as areas of communication and movement, but also as barriers that hindered or impeded cross-border exchanges.

239 p., 19 col. ills, 216 x 280 mm, 2019, ISBN 978-2-503-58156-9 Paperback: € 80 Series: Bibliologia, vol. 53

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