Vanities of the Eye investigates the cultural history of the senses in early modern Europe, a
time in which the nature and reliability of human vision was the focus of much debate. In …

Winner of the MRDS 2013 David Bevington Award for Best New Book in Early Drama
Studies! Drawing on a wide variety of primary sources, Lin reconstructs playgoers' typical …

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 …

Drawing inspiration from Francis Bacon's early call for someone to write a work entitled A
History of the Air, Mazzio's article focuses on the elusive element of air as it confounded …

How portraits of artists during the Renaissance helped create the first art stars in modern
history Michelangelo was one of the biggest international art stars of his time, but being …

Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society &
Conference In 1578, a fourteen-foot linen sheet bearing the faint bloodstained imprint of a …

In this study of the rare twelfth-century treatise On Diverse Arts, Heidi C. Gearhart explores
the unique system of values that guided artists of the High Middle Ages as they created their …

Architecture is at a crossroads-to survive as a vehicle of contemporary human culture it must
extend beyond conventional aesthetic and technological reductions but this requires …

Written by scholars of international stature, Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance
Architecture presents studies of Renaissance pneumatology exploring the relationship …

The late Renaissance sculptor Leone Leoni (1509-1590) came from modest beginnings, but
died as a nobleman and knight. His remarkable leap in status from his humble birth to a …