Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art: The Influence of Marcia Hall: 77 (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture) - Hardcover

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Arthur J. DiFuria, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA; Ian Verstegen, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.

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The essays in Space, Image, and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall's seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church interior, the altarpiece's facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform. Accruing the advantage of critical engagement with a single paradigm, this volume better assesses its applicability and range. The book works cumulatively to provide blocks of theoretical and empirical research on issues spanning the function and role of images in their contexts over two centuries. Relating Hall's investigations of Renaissance art to new fields, Space, Image, and Reform expands the ideas at the center of her work further back in time, further afield, and deeper into familiar topics, thus achieving a cohesion not usually seen in edited volumes honoring a single scholar.

Arthur J. DiFuria is Chair of Art History at Savannah College of Art and Design. He is the editor of Genre Imagery in Early Modern Northern Europe: New Perspectives (2016) and Heemskerck’s Rome: Antiquity, Memory, and the Netherlandish Cult of Ruins (forthcoming).

Ian Verstegen is Associate Director of Visual Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Federico Barocci and the Oratorians: Corporate Patronage and Style in the Counter-Reformation (2015).