Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Substance of Renaissance
1. “Speculum cum macula”: Materiality and Desire
2. Myths of (Un)Making
3. Violence and Retrospection
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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“Cranston provides one of the most provocative critical examinations currently available of the rhetoric and reception of style in Renaissance art. . . . Cranston's text is logically argued and, like the paintings discussed, beautifully and effectively crafted. Its greatest value lies in mapping out new approaches to analyzing style in sixteenth-century visual culture. . . . The newness of the author's approach has indeed introduced analytical tactics not often seen in scholarship on Renaissance art.”
—Andrew R. Casper, Sixteenth Century Journal