Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

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Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

Name: Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Brand: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
SKU: 9781612480923
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By: Edited by Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts, Contributions by Giancarlo Fiorenza, Patricia Simons, William Eamon, Maria Ruvoldt, Henry Dietrich Fernandez, Allie Terry-Fritsch, Lyle Massey
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 248

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Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative paintings, ecclesiastical furnishings and engravers’ tools. Topics include how patrons of art and architecture deployed secrets to construct meanings and distinguish audiences, and how artists and patrons manipulated the content and display of the subject matter of artworks to create an aura of exclusive access and privilege. Essays examine the ways in which popes and princes skillfully deployed secrets in works of art to maximize social control, and how artists, printers, and folk healers promoted their wares through the impression of valuable, mysterious knowledge.

The authors contributing to the volume represent both established authorities in their field as well as emerging voices. This volume will have wide appeal for historians, art historians, and literary scholars, introducing readers to a fascinating and often unexplored component of early modern culture.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Revealing Early Modern Secrecy

Timothy McCall and Sean Roberts

1 The Visual Dynamics of (Un)veiling in Early Modern Culture

Patricia Simons

2 On the Skins of Goats and Sheep: (Un)masking the Secrets of Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture

William Eamon

3 Secrecy and the Production of Seignorial Space: The Coretto of Torrechiara

Timothy McCall

4 Michelangelo’s Open Secrets

Maria Ruvoldt

5 Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, and the Secrets of Divine Wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino’s Devotional Paintings

Giancarlo Fiorenza

6 A Secret Space for a Secret Keeper: Cardinal Bibbiena at the Vatican Palace

Henry Dietrich Fernández

7 Networks of Urban Secrecy: Tamburi, Anonymous Denunciations, and the Production of the Gaze in Fifteenth-Century Florence

Allie Terry-Fritsch

8 Tricks of the Trade: The Technical Secrets of Early Engraving

Sean Roberts

9 The Alchemical Womb: Johann Remmelin’s Catoptrum Microcosmicum

Lyle Massey

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“This book stands out for the diversity of secrets it investigates. Yet, in all this diversity, its focus on the performance of secrecy and the sociability of secrets lends it coherence. This is a worthy addition to the growing literature on secrecy in early modern cultures of knowledge.”

—Sven Dupre, Isis

Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

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