Table Of ContentPower and Image in Early Modern Europe
Power and Image in Early Modern Europe
Edited by
Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire
and Gaoheng Zhang
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Power and Image in Early Modern Europe, Edited by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire
and Gaoheng Zhang
This book first published 2008 by
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ISBN (10): 1-84718-445-6, ISBN (13): 9781847184450
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations....................................................................................vii
Preface........................................................................................................ix
Introduction................................................................................................xi
PART I
CONSOLIDATING POWER AND HEGEMONY THROUGH IMAGE
NEGOTIATION
Chapter One.................................................................................................3
Triumph and Law: Giorgio Vasari’s Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s
Eve and the Iconology of the “State of Exception”
Carolin Behrmann
Chapter Two..............................................................................................15
Anxious Masculinity, Affectation, and the Creation of Personal Image:
Echoes of Quintilian in Castiglione’s Il libro del Cortegiano
Jennifer Newman
Chapter Three............................................................................................25
Mother’s Milk and Deborah’s Sword: The Anatomy of Joan of Arc
in Henry VI
Kathryn Falzareno
PART II
THE MOBILE REFERENT AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELF AND NATION
Chapter Four..............................................................................................43
Echo and Narcissus: Labyrinths of the Self in Early Modern Music
Ljubica Ilic
Chapter Five..............................................................................................57
Aristocratic Spectacle: Visual and Literary Portraiture
in the Seventeenth-Century French Salon
Hiba Hafiz
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Chapter Six................................................................................................77
The Future of the Past Looks Bleak: Spenser’s Recycled Image
and Baudrillard’s Simulacrum
Thomas LeCarner
PART III
DEPARTURES FROM THE ORTHODOX: RE-IMAGING CONVENTION
AND CULTURE
Chapter Seven............................................................................................95
Taking Mary’s Pulse: Cartesianism and Modernity in Rembrandt’s
The Death of the Virgin
Elissa Auerbach
Chapter Eight...........................................................................................119
Secular Relic: The Spectacle of the Body in Decay on the Early
Modern English Stage
N. M. Imbracsio
Chapter Nine............................................................................................129
Modernity and Byzantine Icons
Lilia Verchinina
Notes........................................................................................................137
Bibliography............................................................................................165
Contributors.............................................................................................183
Index........................................................................................................187
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1-1 Giorgio Vasari, The Wounding of Coligny............................................4
1-2 Giorgio Vasari, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve.....................5
1-3 Giorgio Vasari, The Lit de Justice of Charles IX..................................5
1-4 Detail of The Wounding of Coligny.......................................................8
1-5 Detail of The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve..............................10
1-6 Detail of The lit de Justice of Charles IX ...........................................12
7-1 Rembrandt van Rijn, The Death of the Virgin.....................................96
7-2 Theodor Galle and Carel de Mallery, The Death of the Virgin,
illustration from Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Nuper reformatum,
& Pii V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum: ad instar Breviarii Romani sub
Urbano VIII. Recogniti, Antwerp, 1652..................................................101
7-3 Theodor Galle and Carel de Mallery, The Burial of the Virgin,
illustration from Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Nuper reformatum,
& Pii V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum: ad instar Breviarii Romani sub
Urbano VIII. Recogniti, Antwerp, 1652..................................................102
7-4 Theodor Galle and Carel de Mallery, The Assumption of the Virgin,
illustration from Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Nuper reformatum,
& Pii V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum: ad instar Breviarii Romani sub
Urbano VIII. Recogniti, Antwerp, 1652..................................................102
7-5 The Chapel of Our Lady in Time of Need near Heiloo with Saint
Willebrord, illustration from Richard Verstegen, Antiquitates Belgicae
of Nederlandsche Oudtheden, Amsterdam, 1700....................................103
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7-6 Theodor Matham, As Death Draws Near, illustration from Roberti
Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, De arte bene moriendi libri dvo,
Amsterdam, 1626....................................................................................105
7-7 Rembrandtvan Rijn, Saskia Lying in Bed..........................................107
7-8 Albrecht Dürer, The Death of the Virgin...........................................108
7-9 Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth, The Death of the Virgin Mary....................108
7-10 Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp....110
7-11 Frans van Schooten, Man Observing a Diagram of the Retinal
Image, illustration from René Descartes, “La Dioptrique,” Discours de
la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, & cherche la verité dans les
sciences. Plus la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont
des essais de cete Methode, Leiden, 1637...............................................113
PREFACE
This book is the fruit of a vibrant and intellectually exploratory
conference, “Power and Image in Early Modern Europe,” hosted by New
York University’s Department of Italian Studies on April 7-8, 2006. A
group of young scholars gathered from across disciplines to share their
reflections on how contemporary theory may deepen our understanding of
early modernity. New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and
Science, the Dean’s Office of the Graduate School of Arts and Science,
the Medieval and Renaissance Center, and the Casa Italiana Zerilli-
Marimò graciously sponsored the conference.
The editors are indebted to the NYU Italian Studies professors for
their support, with particular gratitude to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Department
Chair; Virginia Cox, Director of Graduate Studies; and Jane Tylus, Vice
Provost for Academic Affairs, for their generous help in preparing the
conference and this book; to Professor Louise Rice from the Department
of Fine Arts for moderating a discussion on art history; and to Professor
Stefano Albertini, Director of the Casa Italiana, for providing an optimal
locale for learning and exchange. Finally, we extend a warm thanks to
Lindsay Eufusia, and, in Rome, John Thavis and Chiara Moriconi for their
assistance with the images reprinted here.
