A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides adiverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essaysaddressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modernhistory.
* Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from artexperts that address various aspects of European visual artsproduced from circa 1300 to 1700
* Divided into five broad conceptual headings: Social-HistoricalFactors in Artistic Production; Creative Process and Social Statureof the Artist; The Object: Art as Material Culture; The Message:Subjects and Meanings; and The Viewer, the Critic, and theHistorian: Reception and Interpretation as Cultural Discourse
* Covers many topics not typically included in collections ofthis nature, such as Judaism and the arts, architectural treatises,the global Renaissance in arts, the new natural sciences and thearts, art and religion, and gender and sexuality
* Features essays on the arts of the domestic life, sexuality andgender, and the art and production of tapestries,conservation/technology, and the metaphor of theater
* Focuses on Western and Central Europe and that territory'sinteractions with neighboring civilizations and distantdiscoveries
* Includes illustrations as well as links to images not includedin the book