Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650

Description

How did the extensive cultural exchange between the Old and New Worlds that took place during the sixteenth century affect artistic practice and discussions of art at that time? In this book distinguished Renaissance art historians reevaluate the Eurocentrism of Italian Renaissance art history by envisioning how the history of Renaissance art would look if cultural interaction and the conditions of reception became the primary focus. Scholars such as Anthony Cutler, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Martin Kemp, Cecelia Klein, and Claudia Lazzaro examine the function, reception, and influence of specific kinds of images and other manufactured objects as they were disseminated around the globe, particularly between Renaissance Italy and Latin America. The first section, on historiography, identifies significant problems in past conceptualizations of Renaissance art. The next essays examine the conceptual frameworks in which visual representation functioned in Europe and Latin America. The third section discusses early collecting practices and cultural exchange in Europe. Three essays then present case studies of culturally hybrid images―of unruly women, colonial maps, and ethnic stereotypes―in intercultural perspective. In the epilogue, W.J.T. Mitchell examines contemporary views of how we construct the human subject. Bringing together the familiar and the unfamiliar in a highly thought-provoking way, the book is an important contribution to many fields of study, including historiography, Latin American art, and Renaissance studies. 1-129 REFRAMING THE RENAISSANCE New Problems, New Paradigms: Revising the Humanist Model Renaissance Theories of the Image Reframing the Renaissance CLAIRE FARAGO Whose Renaissance? Revisiting “The Renaissance Problem” INTRODUCTION Theorizing Cultural Interaction INTRODUCTION Critical Studies in the Migration and Reception of Visual Culture New Problems, New Paradigms: Revising the Humanist Model Renaissance Theories of the Image REFRAMING THE RENAISSANCE Early Collecting Practices Mediating Images: Developing an Intercultural Perspective Tkz Pathos of Distance: Byzantium in the Gaze of issance Europe and Modern Scholarship Byzantium in, and after, the Renaissance THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE 27 Byzantine Art in Modern Scholarship THE PATHOS OF DISTANCE REFRAMING THE RENAISSANCE Art an “Oriental” Art? .' ■ ian Sculptors and Sculpture Outside of Italy >Chiefly in Central Europe): Problems of Approach, Possibilities of Reception' I H MAS DACOSTA KAUFMANN 7ALIAN SCULPTORS AND SCULPTURE OUTSIDE OF ITALY 57 “I mon Itself Has Its History”: Race, ” Nation, and Renaissance Art History Burckhardt’s Notion of Italian Culture Coining of the “Visual Arts” - :.:ghtenment Definitions of Art and Culture The Emergence of Modern Anthropology and the Redefinition of Culture .:nd Cultural Evolutionism Theorizing Cultural Transition: a Retrospective View Re-visioning Raphael as a “Scientific Painter” "Popular” Art in Renaissance Italy: Early Response to the Holy Mountain at Varallo ALESSANDRO NOVA Art Theory as Ideology: Gabriele Paleotti’s Hierarchical Notion of Painting’s Universality and Reception PAMELA M. JONES Paleotti’s Claim for the Universality of Sacred Art Star-gazing, the Viewing Process ART THEORY AS IDEOLOGY 130-155 The Reception of Sacred and Profane Painting The Viewer Languages of Gesture in Sixteenth-Century Mexico Some Antecedents and Transmutations PAULINE MOFFITT WATTS Introduction Antecedents Transmutations From Lies to Truth: Colonial Ekphrasis and the Act of Crosscultural Translation THOMAS CUMMINS 156-193 Christian Doctrine History: Tovar, Acosta, and Duran History and Fiction “Todo aca es mentira” “Wrought by No Artist’s Hand”: The Natural, the Artificial, the Exotic, and the Scientific in Some Artifacts from the Renaissance 194-394 Animals as Cultural Signs: A Medici Menagerie in the Grotto at Castello CLAUDIA LAZZARO I II IV V VI VII VIII IX X REFRAMING THE RENAISSANCE XI Collecting Cultures: A Mexican Manuscript in the Vatican Library ELOISE QUINONES KEBER 236 REFRAMING THE RENAISSANCE TSJonfcernermjettwelf Wild Woman in Colonial Mexico: An Encounter of European and Aztec Concepts of the Other CECELIA F. KLEIN WILD WOMAN IN COLONIAL MEXICO Colony and Cartography: Shifting Signs on Indigenous Maps of New Spain DANA LEIBSOHN COLONY AND CARTOGRAPHY A la Carte: Maps and their Makers Cartographic Palimpsests An Edifice of Signs: the Christian Church COLONY AND CARTOGRAPHY Of Grids and Maps COLONY AND CARTOGRAPHY Figures of Place: Between the Church and the Grid Luca Signorelli’s Rule of Antichrist and the Christian Encounter with the Infidel JONATHAN B. RIESS Iconology, Ideology, and Cultural Encounter: Panofsky, Althusser, and the Scene of Recognition EPILOGUE 295 EPILOGUE mmm NOTES TO PP. 9-11 NOTES TO PP. 18-30 BIBLIOGRAPHY n.54