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Gustav Klimt, Friederike Maria Beer, 1916.

Oil on canvas. Mizne-Blumental Collection

Tel Aviv Museum of Art. From Textiles, Fashion,

and Design Reform in Austria-Hungary Before

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Classical, Byzantine and Medieval 2

Early Modern and Renaissance 4

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century 9

Modern and Contemporary 16

Architecture 19

Museums and Collecting 21

Index 23

Contacts and Customer Service Inside Back Cover

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Sanctity in Global Perspective 2

Visual Culture in Early Modernity 6

Cultures of Play, 1300–1700 8

British Art: Histories and Interpretations Since 1700 10

The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700–1950 11

Studies in Art Historiography 14

Ashgate Studies in Architecture 20


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Classical, Byzantine and Medieval

Bishop Robert Grossetesteand Lincoln CathedralTracing Relationships between MedievalConcepts of Order and Built FormEdited by Nicholas Temple, University of Huddersfield,UK, John Shannon Hendrix, University of Lincoln, UKand Christian Frost, Birmingham City University, UK

‘A welcome addition to a growing constellation of titles in

architectural humanities. This coedited volume of studies

offers thought-provoking insights into the architectonic

significance of Grosseteste’s intellectual oeuvre in its scholasticmediaeval context. It also advances novel theoretical directives

in analyzing the architecture of Lincoln Cathedral under

Grosseteste’s Bishopric in its English Gothic milieu.’

Nader El-Bizri, American University of Beirut

Bishop Robert Grosseteste and Lincoln Cathedral is anin-depth investigation of Grosseteste’s relationship to themedieval cathedral at Lincoln and the surrounding city.This book will contribute to the understanding of Gothicarchitecture in early thirteenth century England – mostspecifically, how forms and spaces were conceived in relationto the cultural, religious and political life of the period. Theessays make an important contribution to our understandingof the relation between architecture, theology, politics andsociety during the Middle Ages, and how religious spaceswere conceived and experienced.

Includes 33 b&w illustrations

November 2014 236 pages

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The Books and the Life ofJudith of FlandersMary Dockray-Miller, Lesley University, USA

Through analysis of the books and art objects Judith ofFlanders commissioned and collected, Dockray-Millerdemonstrates that Judith consciously deployed patronageas a cultural strategy in her political and marital maneuvers.Including full colour reproductions from Monte CassinoMS 437 and Fulda Landesbibliothek MS Aa.21, this book isa fascinating account of a woman who thrived in spite ofbeing on the losing side of the Norman Conquest and theInvestiture Controversy.

Includes 36 color plates on 16 pages and 5 b&w illustrations

February 2015 176 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-6835-6 £60.00 $104.95

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Byzantine Imagesand their AfterlivesEssays in Honor of Annemarie Weyl CarrEdited by Lynn Jones, Florida State University, USA

The twelve papers written for this volume reflect the widescope of Annemarie Weyl Carr’s interests and the equally wideimpact of her career. They are linked by Carr’s expansive bodyof work, which ties together issues of patronage, productionand influence across the medieval Mediterranean. The volumeexamines influences in manuscript production and reception,

imperial patronage, relics and reliquaries, form and style inCypriot architecture and icons, and the relationship betweenoriginal and copy in medieval art.

Includes 15 colour and 70 b&w illustrations

June 2014 304 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-4291-2 £65.00 $109.95


Hagia Sophia and theByzantine Aesthetic ExperienceNadine Schibille, University of Sussex, UK

Paramount in the shaping of early Byzantine identity was theconstruction of the church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople(532–537 CE). This book examines the edifice from theperspective of aesthetics to define the concept of beauty andthe meaning of art in early Byzantium. Byzantine aestheticthought is re-evaluated against late antique Neoplatonismand the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius that offer fundamentalparadigms for the late antique attitude towards art andbeauty.


November 2014 320 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-3758-7 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4795-1ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4794-4


Arts of the Medieval CathedralsStudies on Architecture, Stained Glassand Sculpture in Honor of Anne PracheEdited by Kathleen Nolan, Hollins University, USAand Dany Sandron, Paris-Sorbonne University andCentre André-Chastel, France

AVISTA STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL TECHNOLOGY,SCIENCE AND ART

The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France – theabbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres,Reims, and Bourges – form the core of this collection. The

essays reflect the impact of Anne Prache’s career, as ascholar of wide-ranging interests and as a builder of bridgesbetween French and American academic communities. Theauthors include scholars in France and the United States,both academics and museum professionals, while the book’sthematic matrix, divided into architecture, stained glass,and sculpture, reflects the multiple media explored byPrache during her career.


May 2015 340 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4055-6 £70.00 $119.95


Between Constantinopleand RomeAn Illuminated Byzantine Gospel Book

(Paris gr. 54) and the Union of ChurchesKathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University, USA

‘With its detailed analyses, this monograph is a scholar’s

work. But it is also a coffee-table book with a well-told

narrative accompanied by thirty-three colour plates and

forty-eight monochrome photographs.’

Times Literary Supplement

This is a study of the artistic and political context that led tothe production of Bibliothèque Nationale de France, codexgrec 54, one of the most ambitious and complex manuscriptsof the Byzantine era. Kathleen Maxwell’s multi-disciplinaryapproach includes codicological and paleographicalevidence together with New Testament textual criticism,artistic and historical analysis. Maxwell concludes thatParis 54 was designed to eclipse its contemporariesand to physically embody a new relationship betweenConstantinople and the Latin West.


March 2014 390 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-5744-2 £70.00 $119.95


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SANCTITY IN GLOBALPERSPECTIVESeries Editors: Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University,USA, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, University ofPittsburgh, USA and John Stratton Hawley,Barnard College, USA

Published under the aegis of The Hagiography Society,this series is dedicated to exploring the concept ofsanctity in literary, artistic, ideational, and sociohistoricaldimensions. Sanctity in Global Perspective publishesmonographs and edited volumes that illuminate thelives of saintly figures, the communities dedicated tothose figures, and the material evidence of their cults.Our aim is to foster critical scholarship that offers novelconceptualizations and the possibility of crosspollinationof ideas across traditions, geographical regions, andacademic disciplines. The series is open to all areas ofscholarship, without restriction as to religious traditionsor time periods.

The Geometry of CreationArchitectural Drawing and the Dynamicsof Gothic DesignRobert Bork, University of Iowa, USA

‘As the first English-language book-length study of Gothic

geometrical design procedures, The Geometry of Creation presents an invaluable contribution to the field of medieval

architecture. Scholars might debate particular aspects of

this monumental book, but overall, it marks a decisive step

towards new discoveries about the creative processes of

medieval designers.’ Speculum

This book offers a new perspective on Gothic architecturalcreativity. It shows, in a series of geometrical case studies,how Gothic design evolved over time, in two senses: in thehours of the draftsman’s labour, and across the centuries of thelate Middle Ages. In each case, a series of computer graphicsshow how a medieval designer could have developed hisarchitectural concept step by step, using only basic geometricaloperations. Taken together, these analyses demonstrateremarkable methodological continuity across the Gothic era,and the development of sophisticated permutations on venerabledesign themes.


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Classical, Byzantine and Medieval

Iconoclasm from Antiquityto ModernityEdited by Kristine Kolrud, Stockholm University,Sweden and Marina Prusac, University of Oslo, Norway

The phenomenon of iconoclasm, expressed through hostileactions towards images, has occurred in many differentcultures throughout history. The destruction and mutilationof images is often motivated by a blend of political andreligious ideas and beliefs, and the distinction betweenvarious kinds of ‘iconoclasms’ is not absolute. In order toexplore further the long and varied history of iconoclasm the

contributors to this volume consider iconoclastic reactionsto various types of objects, both in the very recent anddistant past. Whilst the texts are addressed primarily to thoseresearching the Western world, the volume contains materialwhich will also be of interest to students of the Middle East.




Images-within-Images inItalian Painting (1250–1350)Reality and ReflexivityPéter Bokody, Plymouth University, UK

‘Bokody’s book combines visual sensitivity, methodological

variety, historical erudition and theoretical sophistication. His

work encourages us to think with more precision and flexibility

about the concepts of “realism” and reflexivity as applied to

the achievements of Giotto and his contemporaries and in

relation to subsequent generations of artists. Bokody provides

fresh insights for all those who study, admire and teach

this material.’

Joanna Cannon, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

The rebirth of realistic representation in Italy around 1300led to the materialization of a pictorial language whichdominates global visual culture even today. This book offersthe first comprehensive study of Italian meta-painting in theage of Giotto and sheds new light on the early modern andmodern history of the phenomenon. The analysis of pictorialillusionism and reality effect together with the liturgical,narrative and typological role of images-within-imagesmakes this work a pioneering contribution to visual studiesand premodern Italian culture.

Includes 20 colour and 70 b&w illustrationsMarch 2015 272 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-2705-2 £65.00 $109.95


Precinct, Temple and Altarin Roman SpainStudies on the Imperial Monumentsat Mérida and TarragonaDuncan Fishwick, University of Alberta, Canada

The studies included in this volume focus on the monumentsof two cities in Roman Spain, Emerita (now Mérida) andTarraco (now Tarragona). Duncan Fishwick provideshistoriographic surveys of the monuments before discussingthe architectonic significance of the provincial forum at

Emerita, the influence of the provincial governor in itsconstruction, and the evidence for an Ara Providentiae and atemplum minus. He investigates the discovery of the ‘Templeof Augustus’ in Tarragona and turns his attention to presentopinion on the successive stages of construction and design.


April 2015 272 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1265-2 £75.00 $129.95


Rebuilding Anatolia afterthe Mongol ConquestIslamic Architecture in the Lands of Rum,1240–1330Patricia Blessing, Stanford University, USA

BIRMINGHAM BYZANTINE AND OTTOMAN STUDIES: CS17

Beginning with the Mongol conquest of Anatolia in 1243,and ending with the demise of the Ilkhanid Empire in the1330s, this book considers how the integration of Anatoliainto the Mongol world system transformed architectureand patronage in this frontier region. Blessing considersthe monuments built during this period alongside writtensources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. In doing so, sheuntangles the narratives of architecture, history and religionand provides a broader understanding of the interactionof identities in the medieval Middle East.

Includes 10 colour and 73 b&w illustrations and 3 maps

November 2014 272 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-2406-8 £65.00 $109.95


Sculpting Simulacra inMedieval Germany, 1250–1380Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv University, Israel

‘A gripping read that reassures me that careful, ambitious,

radical scholarship is still possible within the field of medieval

art history. Assaf Pinkus offers a bold and smart analysis

based in careful readings of a wealth of classic and recent

scholarship, set against the author’s own observations.

The study is provocative and timely, clearly written and

jargon free. I look forward to seeing the scholarly reaction

to it and to using it in teaching. It is a landmark book and one

with which all scholars of Gothic art will need to contend.’

Nina Rowe, Fordham University, USA

This book constitutes the first art-historical attempt totheorize the idiosyncratic character of German Gothicsculpture and trace the high and late medieval notions of the‘living statue’ and the simulacrum in religious, lay and travelliterature. In addressing a range of works, from the oeuvreof the Naumburg Master through Freiburg-im-Breisgau tothe imperial art of Vienna and Prague, Pinkus offers a newunderstanding of the function, production, and use ofthree-dimensional images in late-medieval Germany.




Being a PilgrimArt and Ritual on the Medieval Routesto SantiagoKathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan

‘With more than 250 evocative colour illustrations, most

specially taken, all accompanied by informative captions (a

task in itself) and an enthusiastic and informative text, this is

a book to be treasured, consulted, and quietly dwelt upon.’

Art Newsletter

Kathleen Ashley and Marilyn Deegan capture theexperience of the medieval pilgrim through an examinationof art, historical and social contexts as well as themesrelated to pilgrimage such as music, legend and ritual.The book is copiously illustrated with new photographsby Marilyn Deegan showcasing the visual legacy of themedieval pilgrimage experience in sculpture, paintingand architecture.

Includes 250 colour illustrations



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Early Modern and Renaissance

Animals and Early ModernIdentityEdited by Pia F. Cuneo, University of Arizona, USA

‘Animals and Early Modern Identity provides a wealth of newwork in early modern animal studies, ranging across Europe

and into the non-European world of exploration and colonial

encounters and in the process engaging such varied topics

as pedagogy, animal husbandry, the visual arts, trade and

travel, court culture, philosophy, and sport. … Should attract

the attention of a wide scholarly audience interested in the

early modern period and its various appropriations of animals

and animality.’

Bruce Boehrer, Florida State University, USA

What roles did animals play in the construction of earlymodern identities? In this volume, international scholarsworking in the disciplines of history, art history and literatureprovide suggestive and probing answers. Their essaysinvestigate how animals – horses, dogs, pigs, fish, cattle,sheep, birds, rhinoceroses, even sea-monsters and othercreatures – served people in Europe, England, the Americasand Africa to defend, contest or transcend the boundariesof early modern identities.




The Antonio II Badile Albumof Drawings: The Originsof Collecting Drawings inEarly Modern Northern ItalyEvelyn Karet, Clark University, USA

‘… this is an exceptionally interesting and meticulous

book, whose supreme merit is to cast light on a hitherto

distinctly overlooked but utterly absorbing corner of the

admittedly seemingly endless artistic landscape of the

Italian Renaissance.’ The Art Newspaper

Tracing the provenance of the earliest known album ofdrawings from its assemblage in the late 1530s to itsdismantling in the 1950s, this book fills a critical gap in thestudy of northern Italian drawings and explores the historictradition of collecting drawings and humanist collections in

northern Italy before Vasari for which the album provides anew point of reference. The study includes a reconstructionof the original album and a page-by-page guide to itscontents, providing insight into an overlooked subject.




Art, Gender and ReligiousDevotion in Grand Ducal TuscanyAlice E. Sanger, Open University, UK

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

‘The three women at the center of the book are deserving

of this focus and study, and there is a lot of excellent new

material here. The focus on rituals, on pilgrimage, on display

of relics, gives this study a broader set of issues to consider

than simply art patronage; and the emphasis on the visual

character of events such as weddings, entries, festivals,

processions, and funerals is especially welcome.’

Ann Roberts, Lake Forest College, USA

Positing Medici women’s patronage as a network ofdevotional, entrepreneurial and cultural activities thatdepended on seeing and being seen, Alice Sanger focuseson the intersection of the visual and the sacred at the Medicicourt of the later sixteenth to early seventeenth centuries.By examining the religious dimensions of the Medici grandduchesses’ art patronage and collecting activities alongsidetheir visually resonant devotional and public acts, this bookadds a new dimension to the current scholarship on women’spatronage in early modern Italy.


January 2014 180 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0079-0 £60.00 $104.95


Artistic Practices and CulturalTransfer in Early Modern ItalyEssays in Honour of Deborah HowardEdited by Nebahat Avcioglu, Hunter College, CUNY,USA and Allison Sherman, Queen’s University, Canada

‘This absorbing collection of essays on early modern Italy

combines shrewd cultural analysis with often surprising case

studies, ranging from the planning of St Andrews as a “new

Rome”, to sharply focused accounts of works by Michelangelo,

Titian and Veronese. Following the groundbreaking example

of Deborah Howard’s scholarship, a number of incisive essays

by architectural historians offer a timely reminder of how

art historical understanding is enriched by engagement

with architectural history in its broadest sense.’

Paul Hills, Professor Emeritus,Courtauld Institute of Art, UK

Showcasing both the diversity within and the porositybetween the ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’ in Renaissance art,this volume explores the material mechanisms for thetransmission and evolution of ideas, artistic training andnetworks, as well as the dynamics of collaboration andexchange between artists, theorists and patrons. Thechapters, each with a wealth of groundbreaking researchand previously unpublished documentary evidence, aswell as innovative methodologies, offer new interpretationsof Italian art.




The Ashgate ResearchCompanion to Giorgio VasariEdited by David J. Cast, Bryn Mawr College, USA

‘...brings together an immensely wide-ranging, multi-faceted,

and thought-provoking series of essays on a whole range

of aspects of the Lives of the Artists. It is bound to proveessential reading for anyone seriously interested in the

history of the history of Italian Renaissance art.’

David Ekserdjian, University of Leicester, UK

The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari brings

together the world’s foremost experts on Vasari as well asup-and-coming scholars to provide, at the 500th anniversaryof his birth, a comprehensive assessment of the current stateof scholarship on this important – and still controversial– artist and writer. Contributors examine the life and workof Vasari as an artist and architect and as a biographer ofartists, and explore his legacy.


January 2014 354 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-0847-5 £85.00 $144.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-1391-8ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-1392-5


Ceremonial Entries inEarly Modern Europe

The Iconography of PowerEdited by J.R. Mulryne, University of Warwick, UK,with Maria Ines Aliverti, University of Pisa, Italy andAnna Maria Testaverde, University of Bergamo, Italy

EUROPEAN FESTIVAL STUDIES: 1450–1700

The essays in this volume concentrate on festivaliconography, the visual and written languages, includingephemeral and permanent structures, costume, drama,inscriptions and published festival books that ‘voiced’ thesocial, political and cultural messages incorporated inprocessional entries in Early Modern Europe. The volumeincludes a transcript of the newly-discovered Registerof Lionardo di Zanobi Bartholini, a Florentine merchant,which details the expenses for each worker for the

possesso (or entry) of Pope Leo X to Rome in April 1513.


March 2015 380 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-3203-2 £80.00 $139.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3204-9ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3205-6


The Emblem in EarlyModern EuropeContributions to the Theory of the EmblemPeter M. Daly, McGill University, Canada

The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, usedextensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, butalso to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass andwindows and numerous other domestic, devotional andpolitical objects. At its most basic level simply a combinationof symbolic visual image and texts, an emblem is a hybridcomposed of words and picture. However, as this book

demonstrates, understanding the precise and often multiplemeaning, intention and message that emblems conveyedcan prove a remarkably slippery process.


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Giorgio Vasari and theBirth of the MuseumEdited by Maia Wellington Gahtan,Istituto Lorenzo de’ Medici (Marist-LdM), Italy

‘This is a first-rate collection of essays and a valuable

addition to the growing Vasari literature … Recommended.’

Choice

The first focused study of Vasari’s original contributionsto museum formation, this collection presents across-disciplinary overview of Vasari’s approaches to

collecting and display, and his impact and legacy withrespect to the museum institution. Vasari specialists unitewith scholars of historical museology to address the subjectfrom the full range of aspects – collecting, installation,conceptual-historical – in which his influence is strongly felt.




Illustrated Religious Texts inthe North of Europe, 1500–1800Edited by Feike Dietz, Universiteit Utrecht, TheNetherlands, Adam Morton, University of Oxford, UK,Lien Roggen, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium,Els Stronks, Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlandsand Marc Van Vaeck, University of Leuven, Belgium

Illustrated Religious Texts in the North of Europe, 1500–1800

provides a new perspective on the role of visual imagery inthe Reformation period by focusing on international formsof collaboration, and makes a significant contribution toongoing debates concerning the history of the book byfocusing on the ideological as well as practical side ofinternational contacts.


August 2014 300 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-6751-9 £70.00 $119.95


Mapping Gendered Routesand Spaces in the EarlyModern WorldEdited by Merry Wiesner-Hanks,University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

How did gender figure in the routes and spaces of theearly modern world, both real and imagined, from the innerspaces of the body to the furthest reaches of the globe?Essays in this volume address this question from a varietyof disciplinary perspectives, with topics key to the ‘spatial

turn’, such as borders and their permeability, actual andmetaphorical spatial crossings, travel and displacement,and the built environment.


April 2015 336 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-2960-5 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-2961-2ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-2962-9


Picturing the ‘Pregnant’Magdalene in Northern Art,1430–1550Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-SaintPenny Howell Jolly, Skidmore College, USA

WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

Examining innovations in Mary Magdalene imagery –including her dress – in northern art 1430 to 1550, PennyJolly explores how the saint’s widespread popularity drewupon her ability to embody oppositions and embrace arange of paradoxical roles: sinner-prostitute and saint,erotic seductress and holy prophet. Analyzing paintings byRogier van der Weyden, Quentin Massys, and others, Jollyinvestigates artists’ and audiences’ responses to increasingreligious tensions, expanding art markets, and changingroles for women.




Piero di CosimoThe Poetry of Painting inRenaissance FlorenceEdited by Gretchen A. Hirschauer andDennis Geronimus with contributions byVirginia Brilliant, David Franklin, Alison Luchs,Serena Padovani and Elizabeth Walmsley

Born in 1462, an auspicious time for hopeful young paintersin Renaissance Florence, Piero di Cosimo left the city’sartistic landscape forever changed upon his death in 1522.The singular vision of this highly esteemed painter is

beautifully presented in this important publication, whichaccompanies the first-ever retrospective of di Cosimo’sastonishing career.

Includes 200 colour illustrations


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Rubens, Velázquez, and theKing of SpainAneta Georgievska-Shine, University of Maryland, USAand Larry Silver, University of Pennsylvania, USA

‘This ambitious study deals with two of the most complex

artists of the seventeenth century, who, moreover, represent

two different artistic traditions. Habsburg myth making,

the emblematic tradition, the mythographic tradition, and

innumerable ancient texts are adduced by the authors to

build a set of associative meanings around the mythological

paintings created for the Torre de la Parada. The authors

treat intention and reception with subtlety and deftness, and

offer up a rich range of possible meanings for this intriguing

pictorial ensemble.’ Giles Knox, Indiana University, USA

Analyzing the decorative mythological imagery of thehunting lodge of King Philip IV of Spain, this studyilluminates the dialogical nature of a painted program,designed largely by Peter Paul Rubens, and supplementedby Diego Velázquez. Careful examination of surviving imagesin their broader intellectual context reveals their literary,rhetorical, and philosophical underpinnings, and elucidatesthe complementary perspectives of these two great artists.



www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409462330The Painted Closet ofLady Anne Bacon DruryH.L. Meakin, University of South Florida, USA

PRIZE: AWARDED A PAUL MELLON CENTRE PUBLICATION ANDAUTHOR GRANT

‘This is an important book that goes beyond a reading of the artifacts

themselves to offer fresh insights into aristocratic feminine life in the early

modern period… In the meantime this study must be welcomed with

enthusiasm, not just for its exemplary scholarship, but also for making this

extraordinary survival more widely known.’ Renaissance Quarterly

Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572–1624) devised dozens of panels comprised ofpictures and Latin mottoes for the walls of her closet or study. The panelsfunctioned as a ‘book’ of meditations to enable her – well-connected,wealthy, and well-educated as she was – to cope with the disappointmentsof her life. For the first time in 400 years, Meakin thoroughly investigates thepersonal, social, and intellectual contexts of Lady Drury’s closet.


October 2013 410 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6397-3 £75.00 $129.95




SERIES www.ashgate.com/vcemVISUAL CULTURE IN EARLY MODERNITY Series Editor: Allison Levy

A forum for the critical inquiry of the visual arts in the early modern world, Visual Culture in Early Modernity promotes new models of inquiry and new narratives of early modern art and itshistory. We welcome proposals for both monographs and essay collections that consider the cultural production and reception of images and objects. The range of topics covered in this seriesincludes, but is not limited to, painting, sculpture and architecture as well as material objects, such as domestic furnishings, religious and/or ritual accessories, costume, scientific/medicalapparata, erotica, ephemera and printed matter. We seek innovative investigations of western and non-western visual culture produced between 1400 and 1800.


Apostolic Iconography andFlorentine Confraternitiesin the Age of ReformDouglas N. Dow, Kansas State University, USA

‘This impressive volume by Dow … helps fill a scholarly

void in books on religious painting in the last quarter of

the 16th century in Florence. …The text is meticulous and

scholarly, supported by copious notes, bibliography, and

original illustrations appropriate to such an ambitious and

groundbreaking study. …Highly recommended. Upper-division

undergraduates through researchers/faculty.’ Choice

Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which untilnow have eluded scholarly attention, this study examines

three different confraternal organizations in sixteenth-century Florence. Douglas Dow explores how, through theemphasis on the apostles within their art programs, thesecorporate groups adapted existing iconography to theirown purposes. He argues that their willful engagement withapostolic themes reveals the complex interaction betweenthese organizations and the church’s program of reform.




CaravaggioReflections and RefractionsEdited by Lorenzo Pericolo, University of Warwick,UK and David M. Stone, University of Delaware, USA

‘...a strong and engaged spectrum of essays by leading

scholars that reflects the range and depth of Caravaggio

scholarship today. It constitutes a milestone contribution to

our understanding of this artist and his complex historical

reception, as well as the range of approaches currently at

work in the study of early modern European art.’

Genevieve Warwick, University of Edinburgh, UKand Editor, Art History

As this collection makes clear, the paths to grasping thecomplexity of Caravaggio’s art are multiple and variable.Offering new or recently updated interpretations of the worksof Caravaggio and the Caravaggisti, this book deals withall the major aspects of Caravaggio’s paintings: technique,creative process, religious context, innovations in pictorialgenre and narrative, market strategies, biography, patronage,reception and new hermeneutical trends.




The Cristos yacentes ofGregorio FernándezPolychrome Sculptures of the SupineChrist in Seventeenth-Century SpainIlenia Colón Mendoza, University of Central Florida, USA

Analyzing seventeenth-century images of the dead Christproduced by Gregorio Fernández, author Ilenia ColónMendoza reveals hitherto unnoticed connections betweenthe sculptures and contemporary liturgical sources. Sheinvestigates how and why Fernández and his patronsmanipulated these images in connection with the religiousliterature of the time to produce striking images that movedthe faithful to devotion.

Includes 16 colour and 54 b&w illustrationsMay 2015 224 pagesHardback 978-1-4094-3068-1 £60.00 $104.95


Cuckoldry, Impotence andAdultery in Europe (15th–17thcentury)Edited by Sara F. Matthews-Grieco,Syracuse University in Florence, Italy

‘This volume convincingly argues that historical studies

have long reflected the double standard by which women are

primarily blamed for adultery, while little scholarly attention has

been paid to the male side of the coin. For the first time a team

of historians, art historians and scholars of drama and literature

investigate this ubiquitous aspect of the erotic cultures of

the past by close reading of a wide and imaginative range of

sources and contexts, including iconography. By so doing,

contributors shed new light on a variety of diverse topics such

as Renaissance comedy, medical empiricism, military culture

and dynastic history. The book, which fills quite a curious gap,

is highly recommended to scholars of Renaissance and early

modern European society, of gender and the body, of sexual

mores, and of imagery and stereotypes in the longue durée.’

Alessandro Arcangeli, Università di Verona, Italy

In Renaissance and early modern Europe, variousconstellations of phenomena – ranging from sex scandalsto legal debates to flurries of satirical prints – collectivelydemonstrate an increased concern with cuckoldry,impotence and adultery. Deploying analytical tools from arange of disciplines, these essays interrogate and explorethose phenomena to reveal the central importance ofsexuality and sexual metaphor for our understanding ofEuropean history, politics and culture.

Includes 12 colour and 48 b&w illustrationsOctober 2014 326 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1439-7 £70.00 $119.95


The Cult of St Clare of Assisiin Early Modern ItalyNirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Ben-Gurion University of theNegev, Israel

‘… will be very useful for historians of hagiography and saints’

cults, especially in the early modern period. For art historians,

too, the book will be interesting when tracing changes in

iconographical representations of saints over time. I hope

that more studies of the visual traditions in other countries

will follow where Debby has pioneered … The ten pages of

colour plates and the 51 black and white images are not only

beautiful, they genuinely support the arguments made within

the volume.’

The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland

Through an examination of such diverse visual images asprints, drawings, panels, sculptures, minor arts, and frescoes,this book, a significant contribution to research in art history,sermon studies, gender studies, and theology, examinesthe representations of St Clare of Assisi in the Italian visualtradition from the thirteenth to the mid-seventeenth century.Debby highlights the role of women saints in the reformmovements of the Osservanza and the Catholic Reformation,and in the face of Muslim-Christian encounter of the earlymodern era.




Death, Torture and the Broken

Body in European Art, 1300–1650Edited by John R. Decker, Georgia State University, USAand Mitzi Kirkland-Ives, Missouri State University, USA

Bodies mangled, limbs broken, skin flayed, blood spilled: theart of the late medieval and early modern periods containsmyriad examples of spectacular unmaking. The martyrdomsof saints, stories of justice, and reports of the atrocities ofwar provided fertile ground for scenes of bodily desecration.Contributors to this volume explore the larger socialfunctions that pain, suffering, and the desecration of thehuman form played in European society.





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The Ethics of Ornamentin Early Modern NaplesFashioning the Certosa di San MartinoJ. Nicholas Napoli, Pratt Institute, USA

The Carthusian monks at San Martino began a series ofdecorative campaigns in the 1580s, transforming their churchinto a jewel of marble revetment, painting, and sculpture.These aesthetic qualities generate a moral conflict: fewreligious orders honored the ideals of poverty so ardently yetdecorated so sumptuously. In this, the first English-language

study of a key monument in Naples, Napoli explores thisconflict and how it sought resolution amidst the realities ofearly modern Naples, shedding new light on the Neapolitanbaroque, industries of art in the age before capitalism, andthe relation of art, architecture, and ornament.

Includes 36 color and 66 b&w illustrations and 6 plans



Faith, Gender and theSenses in Italian Renaissanceand Baroque ArtInterpreting the Noli me tangere andDoubting Thomas

Erin E. Benay, Case Western Reserve University, USAand Lisa M. Rafanelli, Manhattanville College, USA

Taking the Noli me tangere and Doubting Thomasepisodes as a focal point, this study examines how visualrepresentations of two of the most compelling and relatedChristian stories engaged with changing devotional andcultural ideals in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. By reunitingtheir visual examples with important, often little-knowntextual sources, the authors reveal a complex relationshipbetween visual imagery, the senses, contemporary attitudestoward gender, and the shaping of belief.

Includes 6 color and 58 b&w illustrations



Festive Funerals in EarlyModern ItalyThe Art and Culture of ConspicuousCommemorationMinou Schraven, Amsterdam University College,The Netherlands

Interdisciplinary in scope, this book constitutes the firstoverview of the development of early modern papal funeralapparati, the temporary decorations used during the funeralmasses in St Peter’s. Drawing from a range of unpublishedsources, the author shows how the papal apparati functionedwithin the funerary liturgy and how the apparati compared tothose of cardinals and princes on the stages of early modernRome, Theatre of the World.




Gendered Perceptions ofFlorentine Last SupperFrescoes, c. 1350–1490Diana Hiller

The first monograph to appear in English on the Last Supperfrescoes in Quattrocento Florence, this study examinesthe effect of gender on the contextualized perceptions ofthe male and female religious who viewed the FlorentineLast Supper images. Using archival, literary and culturalsources, and by examining a wide range of contexts, DianaHiller argues that the religious viewers’ perceptions of therefectory frescoes were gendered.




Leon Battista Albertiand Nicholas CusanusTowards an Epistemology of Vision forItalian Renaissance Art and CultureCharles H. Carman, University of Buffalo, USA

Providing a fresh evaluation of Alberti’s text On Painting(1435), along with comparisons to various works of NicholasCusanus this study reveals a hitherto unsuspected sharedepistemology of vision. Analyzing a range of artworks inlight of Alberti’s and Cusanus’s ideals of vision, the author

attributes a more deeply Christian Neoplatonic ideal thanis typically accorded to Alberti, and adds a new dimensionto our understanding of theories of vision in the ItalianRenaissance.


August 2014 218 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-2923-0 £60.00 $104.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-2924-7ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-2925-4


Old Women and Art in the EarlyModern Italian Domestic InteriorErin J. Campbell, University of Victoria, Canada

Drawing on a wide range of primary visual sources and

historical sources, this study examines the remarkableflowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship todate of portraits of old women in Northern Italy during thesecond half of the sixteenth century. Author Erin Campbellargues that these images of unidentified women providean opportunity to present new conceptual frameworks, andquestion our assumptions about old age, portraiture, andthe domestic interior.


July 2015 200 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4213-0 £60.00 $104.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4214-7ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4215-4

The Spectacle of Clouds,1439–1650Italian Art and Theatre

Alessandra Buccheri, Fine Art University of Palermo, Italy

The Spectacle of Clouds examines the different ways Heavenhas been conceived and represented from the fifteenthto the seventeenth centur y, crossing over into the fields ofhistory, religion and philosophy. By examining visual sourcessuch as paintings, frescos and stage designs, together withletters, guild-ledgers, descriptions of performances andtreatises, a new methodology to approach the developmentof this early modern visuality is offered. The result is anhistorical reconstruction where multiple factors are seen asfacets of a single process which led to the development ofItaly’s visual culture.


December 2014 216 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1883-8 £60.00 $104.95


The Spiritual RococoDecor and Divinity from the Salonsof Paris to the Missions of PatagoniaGauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen’s University, Canada

Exploring for the very first time the global reach and spiritualdimension of Rococo décor, particularly in France, CentralEurope, Portugal, Brazil, and Spanish South America,this study investigates the socio-religious motives for theimportation of this style into an ecclesiastical setting and itscommonalities with Enlightenment values, overturning thecliché of Rococo as a frivolous style and acknowledging itsessential modernity.




Vincenzo Scamozzi andthe Chorography of EarlyModern ArchitectureAnn Marie Borys, University of Washington, USA

Ann Marie Borys presents northern Italian architect VincenzoScamozzi (1548–1616) as a traveler and an observer, the firstWestern architect to respond to the changing shape of theworld in the Age of Discovery. Pointing out his familiaritywith the expansion of knowledge in both natural history andgeography, she highlights his truly unique contribution: to

make geography and cartography central to the knowledgeof the architect.




Visual Acuity and the Artsof Communication in EarlyModern GermanyEdited by Jeffrey Chipps Smith, University of Texas, USA

During the early modern period, visual imagery was put toever new uses as many disciplines adopted visual criteria fortesting truth claims, representing knowledge, or conveyinginformation. Religious propagandists, political writers,

satirists, cartographers, the scientific community, andothers experimented with uses of visual images. Artists,writers, preachers and musicians, among others, oftenemployed visual images to connect with their audiences.Contributors to this interdisciplinary collection explore howthe exponential growth in images, especially prints, impactedthe intellectual horizons and the visual awareness of viewersin early modern Germany.

Includes 60 b&w illustrations and 3 music examples



Women, Patronage, and Salvationin Renaissance FlorenceLucrezia Tornabuoni and the Chapel

of the Medici PalaceStefanie Solum, Williams College, USA

Mapping out the cultural network of gender, piety, and powersurrounding the creation of the Medici family altarpiece,Stefanie Solum challenges the received wisdom that womenplayed little part in shaping visual culture in QuattrocentoFlorence. Using the altarpiece as a case study, she not onlyreveals Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici’s agency as an artpatron and a power-broker, but offers a new paradigm for thedefinition of the artist-patron relationship.




Writing Fashion in EarlyModern ItalyFrom Sprezzatura to SatireEugenia Paulicelli, Queens College and theGraduate Center, City University of New York, USA

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashionand Italian literature, this book emphasizes the centralityof Italian literature and culture for understanding moderntheories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shapingof codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Usingliterature to uncover what has been called the ‘animatednessof clothing,’ the author explores the political meanings thatclothing produces in public space.


June 2014 278 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1170-9 £65.00 $109.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3603-0

ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3604-7www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781472411709




Şehrengiz, Urban Ritualsand Deviant Sufi Mysticismin Ottoman IstanbulB. Deniz Çalis-Kural, Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey

‘Şehrengiz, Urban Rituals and Deviant Sufi Mysticism inOttoman Istanbul is thrillingly bold, demonstrating thatthe Ottoman sehrengiz were a function of the Melâmî sufi

order. This is as breath-taking as to say that performances

at the Globe Theatre of Elizabethan England were a function

of a secret mystical order penetrating the highest levels

of government. Yet in this author’s hands the exposition proceeds at a calm, comfortable pace, rigorously supported

and comfortably thorough.’

Victoria Holbrook, author of The Unreadable Shores of Love:Turkish Modernity and Mystic Romance

Examining the urban culture and landscapes of IstanbulthroughŞehrengiz, a genre of Ottoman poetry written inhonor of various cities and provincial towns, this bookquestions the space culture of the Ottoman world in relationto practices of orthodox and heterodox Islam and imperialpolitics. The author traces how a sixteenth-century marginalprotest movement evolved, by the early eighteenth century,into a movement of urban space reform.


July 2014 290 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-2709-0 £65.00 $109.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3226-1ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3227-8


Sexualities, Textualities, Artand Music in Early Modern ItalyPlaying with BoundariesEdited by Melanie L. Marshall, University CollegeCork, Ireland, Linda L. Carroll, Tulane University, USA,and Katherine A. McIver, University of Alabama atBirmingham, USA

The essays in this interdisciplinary collection draw onvisual art, theatre, music, history and literature, in sacredand secular contexts, to explore the cultural fashioningof sexualities in early modern Italy. Approaching the topicfrom the point of view of both visual and auditory media, theessays demonstrate the role played by artistic production infashioning, policing, and challenging early modern sexual

boundaries.Includes 22 b&w illustrations and 7 music examples



The Spanish Presence inSixteenth-Century ItalyImages of IberiaEdited by Piers Baker-Bates, the Open University,UK and Miles Pattenden, Jesus College, Oxford, UK

TRANSCULTURALISMS, 1400–1700

The essays collected here evaluate the broad range ofcontexts in which Spaniards were present in early modernItaly. They consider diplomacy, sanctity, art, politics and evenpopular verse. Each essay excavates how Italians who cameinto contact with the Spanish crown’s power perceived andinteracted with the wider range of identities brought amongstthem by its servants and subjects. Together they demonstratewhat influenced and what determined Italians’ responses toSpain; they show Spanish Italy in its full transcultural gloryand how its inhabitants projected its culture – throughoutthe sixteenth century and beyond.


January 2015 292 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4149-2 £65.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4150-8ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4151-5


St. Catherine of Alexandriain Renaissance Roman ArtCase Studies in PatronageCynthia Stollhans, Saint Louis University, USA

How and why did a medieval female saint from theEastern Mediterranean come to be such a powerful symbolin early modern Rome? This study provides an overview ofthe development of the cult of Catherine of Alexandria inRenaissance Rome, and explores how her imagery was usedto support the religious, political, and/or social agendas of

individual patrons and religious orders.Includes 8 colour and 38 b&w illustrations



Zen Paintings in Edo Japan(1600–1868)Playfulness and Freedom in the Artworkof Hakuin Ekaku and Sengai GibonGalit Aviman, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev,The Hebrew University and Tel-Aviv University

This book explores the playfulness reflected in the artworkof two prominent Japanese Zen monk-painters: HakuinEkaku (1685–1768) and Sengai Gibon (1750–1837). Aviman

elaborates on the nature of this particular artistic expressionand identifies its sources, focusing on the lives of the monk-painters and their artwork. The author combines a holisticanalysis of the paintings, i.e. as interrelated combination oftext and image, with a contextualization of the works withintheir specific environments.




Call for proposals

CULTURES OF PLAY,1300–1700Series Editor: Bret Rothstein,Indiana University, USA

Play looms ever larger in academe: a growing bodyof scholarly literature lies at the nexus of strongcurrent interest in material culture/the study ofobjects, performance studies, and childhood studies.At the same time, play has also begun to t ransformaspects of pedagogy – most notably, perhaps, throughthe rise of games as vectors for instruction. Withthese transformations comes, across disciplines, aconcomitant shift in historical interest, one to whichthis series is dedicated.

Dedicated to the ludic Renaissance in Europe, this seriesserves two purposes. First, it recounts the history ofearly modern wit, humor, and games, from backgammonand tops to bulls and t ractates. Second, in addressing itstopic broadly, Cultures of Play, 1300–1700 also providesa forum for reconceptualizing the play elements of earlymodern economic, political, religious, and social life.

We welcome proposals from a range of disciplines,including history, religious studies, the history andphilosophy of science, literature, theater history,philosophy, and the history of art and visual culture.

www.ashgate.com/culturesofplay

The Netherlandish Image afterIconoclasm, 1566–1672Material Religion in the Dutch Golden Age

Mia M. Mochizuki, Jesuit School of Theology, and Graduate TheologicalUnion, Berkeley, California, USA

PRIZE: WINNER OF THE ACE/MERCERS’ INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2009

WINNER OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION PUBLICATION GRANT, 2007

‘Winner of the 2009 ACE/Mercer’s International Book Award, Mochizuki’s text is

much admired for its imaginative power, and for pioneering a full-scale history

of church art of the Dutch Golden Age. ... Filled with interesting information

and new interpretations, it outlines a fascinating trajectory beyond the largely

imageless church interiors of seventeenth-century Holland that is its chief

subject to the fabulous images [...] made by that culture during the Golden Age.’

Art and Christianity

Debunking the myth of the stark white Protestant church interior, this innovative book draws on art history, reformation historyand theology to explain the impact of iconoclasm on the cultural topography of the Dutch Golden Age. Lavishly illustrated withcolor photographs of many objects never before published, this study identifies a previously overlooked aspect of iconoclasm:while acknowledging its destructive force, Mochizuki also discloses its generative power and the remarkable creativity itunleashed.


November 2008 424 pagesHardback 978-0-7546-6397-3 £80.00 $144.95



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Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century

Académie RoyaleA History in PortraitsHannah Williams, St John’s College,University of Oxford, UK

‘Académie Royale: A History in Portraits is full of newinsights-often brilliant ones-into the world of the French Royal

Academy of Painting and Sculpture. Williams’ approach to

the inner workings of the Academy through close readings of

members’ portraits and self-portraits, is innovative, refreshing

and inspired-drawing as it does, on anthropological interpretive

models, as well as art historical ones. Original, meticulously

researched and elegantly written, this book will be essentialreading for specialists in many fields including history,

French studies and cultural anthropology, and it will be an

indispensable source for historians of eighteenth-century art.’

Melissa Hyde, University of Florida, USA

From its establishment in 1648 until its disbanding in 1793after the French Revolution, the Académie Royale de Peintureet de Sculpture was the centre of the Parisian art world.Taking the reader behind the scenes of this elite bastion ofFrench art theory, education, and practice, and drawing onboth art-historical and anthropological frames of analysis,this engaging study uncovers the fascinating histories –official and unofficial – of that artistic community.




Addiction and BritishVisual Culture, 1751–1919Wasted LooksJulia Skelly, Concordia University, Canada

This book investigates and problematizes the long-heldbelief that addiction is legible from the body, thus positioningvisual images as unreliable sources in attempts to identifyalcoholics and drug addicts. Examining paintings, graphicsatire, photographs, advertisements and architecturalsites, Skelly explores such issues as ongoing anxietiesabout maternal drinking; the punishment and confinementof addicted individuals; the mobility of female alcoholicsthrough the streets and spaces of nineteenth-centuryLondon; and soldiers’ use of addictive substances suchas cocaine and tobacco to cope with traumatic memories

following the First World War.Includes 33 b&w illustrations



Architecture and theHistorical ImaginationEugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, 1814–1879Martin Bressani, McGill University, Canada

‘This is a magnum opus, in more than one sense of the term.

An important work, the product of vast research and dedicated

scholarship, Bressani’s biographical study is a timely

contribution not only to architectural studies but also to the

field of historical culture in general. Through tracing Viollet-

le-Duc’s achievement in relation to the broad transition fromRomanticism to Modernity, Bressani succeeds in bringing out

his wider significance as an artist and thinker, and as a major

figure in French Romanticism.’

Stephen Bann, Bristol University, UK

The importance of Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc(1814–1879) within modern architecture cannot beoverstated. Key theoretician of modernism, renownedrestoration architect, medieval archaeologist and championof Gothic revivalism, he also published some of the mostinfluential texts in the history of modern architecture.Martin Bressani expertly traces Viollet-le-Duc’s complexintellectual development, showing how restoration, in allits layered meaning, shaped his outlook. Through his lifejourney, we follow the route by which the technologicalsubject was born out of nineteenth-century historicism.


May 2014 624 pages

Hardback 978-0-7546-3340-2 £65.00 $109.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4088-4ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4089-1


Art in the Time of ColonyKhadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

EMPIRES AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD,1650–2000

‘Art in the Time of Colony is an absorbing, experimentalinterrogation of colonial art and encounter in Australia.

The book is notable on many grounds, not least for its fresh

research on the intriguing mid-nineteenth century scientific

traveller Blandowski, almost forgotten until very recently, but

above all for its perspective on art history, from the vantage

point of contemporary art. Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll’s

voice is distinctive and compelling.’

Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge, UK

It is often assumed that the verbal and visual languages ofIndigenous people had little influence upon the classificationof scientific, legal, and artistic objects in the metropolisesand museums of nineteenth-century colonial powers.However colonized locals did more than merely collectmaterial for interested colonizers. In developing theconcept of anachronism for the analysis of colonialmaterial this book writes the complex biographies forfive key objects that exemplify, embody, and refract thetensions of nineteenth-century history.




Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris,1750–1850Exchanges and TensionsEdited by Sarah Hibberd and Richard Wrigley,both at the University of Nottingham, UK

This book maps the interrelation between art, theatre, andopera in a time of dramatic historical change and politicalcontestation in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Paris.Contributions to the volume trace the creative connectionsand clashes fostered by the sharing of new types of subjectmatter throughout the period. Scholars from art history,theatre studies and musicology take as their subjects avariety of protagonists from theatre, opera, literature andhistory in order to make visible the intimately interwovenand entangled world of Parisian arts.

Includes 38 b&w illustrations and 7 music examples



Artful Virtue: The Interplayof the Beautiful and the Goodin the Scottish EnlightenmentLeslie Ellen Brown, Ripon College, USA

This book reveals the history of how the vast landscapeof moral philosophy was applied to the specific territoriesof beauty – in nature, aesthetics and ethics – during theeighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. The authorexplores a variety of sources, from academic lectures andinstitutional record, to popular texts such as newspapersand pamphlets, to show how the idea that beauty and artmade individuals and society more virtuous was elevatedand understood in Scottish society.


April 2015 240 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-4848-4 £70.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-4849-1ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-4850-7


Blacks and Blacknessin European Art of theLong Nineteenth CenturyEdited by Adrienne L. Childs, Hutchins Centerfor African and African American Research atHarvard University, USA and Susan H. Libby,Rollins College, USA

‘This excellent volume exemplifies the increasing sophistication

of scholarship around issues of the representation of race,

particularly in the nineteenth century. High art, popular art and

popular performance involving Africans are analysed with dueregard to the complexities of European racial attitudes in an age

of commercialism and empire.’

David Bindman, Hutchins Center at Harvard University, USA

Compelling and troubling, colorful and dark, black figuresserved as the quintessential image of difference innineteenth-century European art. This collection marks aphase in the scholarship on images of blacks that movesbeyond undifferentiated binaries like ‘negative’ and‘positive’ that fail to reveal complexities, contradictions,and ambiguities.




Cultures of InternationalExhibitions 1840–1940Great Exhibitions in the MarginsEdited by Marta Filipová, University of Birmingham, UK

Beyond the world fairs in London, Paris or Chicago,numerous smaller, ambitious exhibitions took place inprovincial cities and towns worldwide. This volume takesa novel look at the exhibitionary cultures of the period1840–1940. By examining the motivations, scope, andimpact of lesser-known exhibitions in, for example, Australia,Japan, Brazil, as well as a number of European countries,the volume opens up new angles in the way the globalphenomenon of a great exhibition can be examinedthrough the prism of the regional.




Delicious Decadence –The Rediscovery of FrenchEighteenth-Century Paintingin the Nineteenth CenturyEdited by Christoph Vogtherr, Wallace Collection,UK and Monica Preti and Guillaume Faroult,Musée du Louvre, France

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance tomany academic disciplines, and shows no sign of abatingin popularity. As such scholars will welcome this collectionof essays by internationally recognized experts that gatherstogether for the first time varied and stimulating perspectiveson the nineteenth-century collector and art market for

French eighteenth-century art, and ultimately the formationof collections that form part of such august institutions asthe Louvre and the National Gallery.






SERIES www.ashgate.com/britisharthistoriesBRITISH ART: HISTORIES AND INTERPRETATIONSSINCE 1700Series Editors: David Peters Corbett and Sarah Monks, both at University of East Anglia, UK

This series exists to publish new and rigorous scholarship of the highest quality on British art after 1700. Proposals will

offer new bodies of research or new interpretations, ideally both, and should demonstrate a clear awareness of the proposedvolume’s contribution to current and wider art-historical debates.

We define British art broadly to mean art made in the British Isles or by British artists, and particularly welcome proposalswhich address the topic from international or comparative cultural perspectives. We also welcome proposals for intellectuallyambitious studies concerning more localised areas, issues and themes within British art during this period.

Above all, we encourage proposals for books on British art which transcend the descriptive in order to offer a broadermethodological and/or historiographical contribution to the discipline of art history.


The Dog in the DickensianImaginationBeryl Gray

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SERIES

In her study of Dickens’s relationship to canines, Gray showsthat dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens’s visionand experience of London and its representation. She makesuse of personal reminiscences, periodicals, images of dogsby portrait artists and Dickens’s illustrators, and institutionalarchives to shed light not only on Dickens’s life and works, butalso on his society’s complex and conflicting perceptions ofand attitudes towards dogs.


November 2014 274 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-3529-3 £65.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-3530-9ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-3531-6


Elizabeth Robins Pennell,Nineteenth-Century Pioneerof Modern Art CriticismKimberly Morse Jones, Sweet Briar College, USA

Mining various archives and newspaper repositories,Morse Jones provides the first full-length study of this

remarkable woman. Pennell, a ‘New Art Critic’, helpeddevelop formalist methodology in Britain, which she appliedto her mostly anonymous or pseudonymous reviews.Pennell used her platform to promote the work of ‘new’artists, including Manet and Degas, as well as championingthe work of Whistler for whom she wrote a biography. Hercontributions to the art world highlight the pivotal role ofcriticism in the production and consumption of art in thelate-nineteenth century.




Exhibiting Outside the Academy,Salon and Biennial, 1775–1999Alternative Venues for DisplayEdited by Andrew Graciano, University of SouthCarolina, USA

‘... unique in its contributions, ambitious in scope and approach,and succeeds in bringing together an impressive range of essays

on a timely subject by specialists in the field. This volume fills

an important lacuna and provides a welcome and much needed

addition to the history of exhibitions and collections.’

Dorothy Johnson, School of Art and Art History,University of Iowa, USA

In recent years, there has been increasing scholarly interestin the history of museums, academies and major exhibitions.There has been, however, little sustained interest in thehistories of alternative exhibitions. The present volumecontextualizes eleven case studies to advance overarchingthemes among alternative exhibitions from the late-eighteenth century to the late-twentieth century. Theseinclude the issue of control in the relationship between

artist and curator, and the relationship of alternativeexhibitions to the dominant modes, display structuresand cultural ideology.




Painting Labour in Scotlandand Europe, 1850–1900John Morrison, University of Aberdeen, UK

‘The juxtaposition of J.F. Millet with W.D. McKay, and

Edwin Landseer with George Reid, makes for a volume

that will appeal to both an academic audience and to

one interested in European art history more generally.’

Scottish Art NewsThis book sets out to discuss Scottish rural painting inrelation to its Scottish historical context and its English andEuropean counterparts. Alongside canonical Scottish imagesby major figures such as James Guthrie, the book exploresmany under researched paintings by nineteenth-centuryScottish artists, and considers them in relation to majorEnglish and Continental Realist and Romantic painters.




Printing and Painting theNews in Victorian LondonThe Graphic and Social Realism, 1869–1891Andrea Korda, University of Alberta, Canada

This first in-depth study of 1860s publication The Graphicand Social Realism uses the approach of media archaeologyto unearth the modernity of paintings labeled as Social

Realist. Korda shows that the paintings engaged withthe changing notions of objectivity and immediacy thatnineteenth-century new media cultivated. In doing so, thisbook proposes an alternative trajectory for the developmentof modernism that allows for a richer understanding ofnineteenth-century visual culture.




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SERIES www.ashgate.com/hmccTHE HISTORIES OF MATERIAL CULTURE ANDCOLLECTING, 1700–1950Series Editor: Michael Yonan, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA

The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting provides a forum for the broad study of object acquisition and collecting

practices in their global dimensions from 1700 to 1950. The series seeks to illuminate the intersections between materialculture studies, art history, and the history of collecting. It takes as its starting point the idea that objects both contributed tothe formation of knowledge in the past and likewise contribute to our understanding of the past today. The human relationshipto objects has proven a rich field of scholarly inquiry, with much recent scholarship either anthropological or sociologicalrather than art historical in perspective. Underpinning this series is the idea that the physical nature of objects contributessubstantially to their social meanings, and therefore that the visual, tactile, and sensual dimensions of objects are critical totheir interpretation. gh arts of painting and sculpture, the decorative arts (furniture, ceramics, metalwork, etc.), and everydayobjects of all kinds. The series publishes interdisciplinary and comparative research on objects that addresses one or more ofthese perspectives and includes monographs, thematic studies, and edited volumes of essays.


Foreign Artists and Communitiesin Modern Paris, 1870–1914Strangers in ParadiseEdited by Karen L. Carter, Kendall College of Art andDesign, Ferris State University, USA and Susan Waller,University of Missouri-Saint Louis, USA

‘This collection of essays by an international group of

authors provides fascinating insights into the lives, careers,

and creations of foreign artists who visited Paris or made it

their permanent home at the turn of the nineteenth century.

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris, 1870–1914illuminates the expatriate communities these artists formed,the international networks of which they became a part, their

interaction (or not) with French Modernism, and the impact

they exerted on the art of others-all against the backdrop of

the difficulty to adjust and survive in a foreign country. For

those interested in international artistic exchanges, this book

is a must-read.’

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University, USA

Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and establishedinternational scholars examine Paris as a thrivingtransnational arts community during a period of burgeoningglobal immigration. They address the experiences ofimportant modern artists as well as foreign exiles,immigrants, students and expatriates within the largertrends of international mobility. In doing so, they explore thestructures that permitted foreign artists to forge connectionswithin and across national communities and contribute tothe development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art.




Framing the Ocean,1700 to the PresentEnvisaging the Sea as Social SpaceEdited by Tricia Cusack

‘This engaging and erudite volume will interest a range of

scholars in humanities and social sciences, including art

and cultural historians, cultural geographers, and historians

of empire, travel, and tourism.’ Irish Arts Review

Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded asa repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zoneof wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in theWest and elsewhere as ‘uninhabited’, empty space. Thiscollection, spanning the eighteenth centur y to the present,recasts the ocean as ‘social space’, with particular referenceto visual representations. This engaging and erudite volumewill interest a range of scholars in humanities and socialsciences, including art and cultural historians, culturalgeographers, and historians of empire, travel, and tourism.




British Models of Art Collectingand the American ResponseReflections Across the PondEdited by Inge Reist, The Frick Collectionand Frick Art Reference Library, USA

This collection of fourteen essays by distinguished art and

cultural historians examine points of similarity and differencein British and American art collecting. Half the essaysexamine the trends that dominated the British art collectingscene of the nineteenth century. Others focus on Americancollectors, using biographical sketches and case studies todemonstrate how collectors in the United States embellishedthe British model to develop their own, often philanthropicapproach to art collecting.


October 2014 282 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-3806-5 £65.00 $109.95


Craft, Community and theMaterial Culture of Placeand Politics, 19th-20th CenturyEdited by Janice Helland, Queen’s University, Canada,Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Canada andAlena Buis, Queen’s University, Canada

With object study at the core, this book brings together acollection of essays that address the past and present ofcraft production, its use and meaning within a range ofcommunity settings from the Huron Wendat of colonialQuebec to the Girls’ Friendly Society of twentieth-centuryEngland.

The making of handcrafted objects has and continuesto flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of globalindustrialization. By attending to the political histories ofcraft objects and their makers, over the last few centuries,these essays reveal the creative persistence of varioushand mediums and the material debates they represented.


February 2014 246 pages

Hardback 978-1-4094-6207-1 £60.00 $104.95www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409462071

Manufacturing the ModernPatron in Victorian CaliforniaCultural Philanthropy, Industrial Capital,and Social AuthorityJohn Ott, James Madison University, USA

PRIZE: WINNER OF A COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION WYETHFOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN ART PUBLICATION GRANT

Through the example of Central Pacific Railroad executives,attention is here redirected from the usual art historicalprotagonists – artistic producers – and narratives ofAmerican art are rewritten from the unfamiliar vantageof patrons and collectors. This book addresses not onlyreaders in the art history and visual and material culturesof the United States, but also scholars of patronage studies,American Studies, and the sociology of culture. It tellsa story still relevant to this new Gilded Age of the earlytwenty-first century, in which wealthy collectors dramaticallyshape contemporary art markets and institutions.




Textiles, Fashion, and DesignReform in Austria-HungaryBefore the First World WarPrinciples of DressRebecca Houze, Northern Illinois University, USA

Filling a critical gap in Vienna 1900 studies, this book offers anew reading of fin-de-siècle culture in the Austro-HungarianMonarchy by looking at the preoccupation with embroidery,fabrics, clothing, and fashion. The author resurrects lesserknown critics, practitioners, and curators, while alsodiscussing the textile interests of better known figures.Spanning the 50-year life of the Dual Monarchy, this studyuncovers new territory in art history, insists on the crucialplace of women within modernism, and broadens thecultural history of Habsburg Central Europe.







George Augustus Salaand the Nineteenth-CenturyPeriodical PressThe Personal Style of a Public WriterPeter Blake, University of Brighton, UK

In his study of the journalist George Augustus Sala,Peter Blake shows how Sala’s personal style and innovationsin form influenced the New Journalism at the end of thenineteenth century. Blake’s book expands our understandingof one of the more prominent and interesting journalists andpersonalities of the nineteenth century, while also sheddinglight on prominent nineteenth-century writers and artistssuch as Charles Dickens, Mathew Arnold, William PowellFrith, Henry Vizetelly and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.


May 2015 288 pagesHardback 978-1-4724-1607-0 £65.00 $119.95ebook PDF 978-1-4724-1608-7ebook ePUB 978-1-4724-1609-4


George Hadfield:Architect of the Federal CityJulia King

During his lifetime, the work of architect George Hadfield

(1763–1826) was highly regarded, both in England andthe United States. Since his death, however, Hadfield’scontributions to architecture have slowly faded from view,and few of his buildings survive. In order to reassessHadfield’s career and work, this book draws upon a wideselection of written and visual sources to reconstruct hislife and legacy.




Iron, Ornament andArchitecture in Victorian BritainMyth and Modernity, Excessand EnchantmentPaul Dobraszczyk, University of Manchester, UK

In the half century after the building of the Crystal Palace(1851), some architects, engineers, manufacturers andtheorists believed that the fusion of iron and ornamentwould reconcile art and technology and create a new,modern architectural language. This book studies the

development of mechanised architectural ornament iniron in nineteenth-century architecture, its reception andtheorisation, and the contexts in which it flourished. Assuch, it offers new ways of understanding the notion ofmodernity in Victor

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