, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2019 Hardback, 534 pages, Size:210 x 275 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 222 col., Languages: English, Latin, Italian. ISBN 9781909400702.
Summary This volume honors the vital impact of David Freedberg, Pierre Matisse Professor of the History of Art and Director of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University, on the field of art history and several cognate areas of research. Essays by leading specialists on early modern northern European and Italian art and history, prints and print culture, iconoclasm and responses to images, connoisseurship, and the history of collecting, testify to Freedberg's wide area of influence and a substantial intellectual legacy in the making. With contributions by Renzo Baldasso, Marisa Anne Bass, Emily A. Beeny, Carolin Behrmann, Francesco Benelli, David, Benjamin, Horst Bredekamp, Giovanna Alberta Campitelli, Chiara Cappelletto, Georges Didi-Huberman, Adam Eaker, Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Robert Fucci, Diletta Gamberini, Maartje van Gelder, Carlo Ginzburg, Claudia Goldstein, Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Meredith McNeill Hale, Koenraad Jonckheere, Margaret K. Koerner, Catherine Levesque, Victoria Sancho Lobis, Peter N. Miller, Alexandra Onuf, Peter Parshall, Andrea Pinotti, Larry Silver, William Stenhouse, Jonathan Unglaub, Mari t Westermann, Veronica Maria White, Anne T. Woollett, Elizabeth Wyckoff, and Carolyn Yerkes. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - Claudia Swan The North Marisa Anne Bass - Florilegium: The Origins of the Flower Still Life in the Early Modern Netherlands Emily A. Beeny - Poussin's Idolatrous Dances Benjamin Binstock - Rembrandt's So-Called 'Faust' as Self-Portrait of the Artist-Kabbalist in the Studio Adam Eaker - Rubens and the Gallery of Beauties Robert Fucci - Rubens and the Twelve Years' Truce: Reconsidering the Adoration of the Magi for the Antwerp Town Hall Claudia Goldstein - Kitchen Scenes and Performance at the Antwerp Dinner Party Koenraad Jonckheere - Something's Missing. A Note on the Historiography of Rubens's Rockox Triptych Mari t Westermann - The Lemon's Lure Anne T. Woollett - Forging Rubens: Antwerp and the Vaenius Studio Printed Matter Renzo Baldasso - Capitals between Rome and Nuremberg: Creating and Transferring Style c. 1470-75 Catherine Levesque - 'Imitation and its Discontents': Hercules Segers's Window Victoria Sancho Lobis - Vorsterman, Van Dyck, and Rubens's Printmaking Enterprise Peter N. Miller - What Price Innovation? The Cost of Printing the Paris Polyglot Bible Alexandra Onuf - Hans van Luyck and the Byways of Flemish Landscape Prints Peter Parshall - Rembrandt's Christ Presented to the People (1655): A Report on the Crowd Elizabeth Wyckoff - 'Various Rare Paintings and Printed Artworks for Art Lovers': Jan Pietersz Berendrecht and the Origins of the Dutch Painter-Etcher Tradition The Powers of Images Carolin Behrmann - Venus, Slashed: Objectification and Artistic Agency Chiara Cappelletto - The Bios of the Image: Living Thanks to Fiction Georges Didi-Huberman - Image, sensation, disproportion Maartje van Gelder - Stoning the Doge. Popular Aggression and Political 'Iconoclasm' in Early Modern Venice Andrea Pinotti - The Anthropomorphic Drive. Similitude, Simulation, Empathy Gary Schwartz - Emotions in Art from Giambattista della Porta to David Freedberg Larry Silver - Images of Power: Dinglinger's Dresden Miniatures Carolyn Yerkes - Inhabited Sculptures, Lethal Weapons Italian Subjects Francesco Benelli - Angles and Demons. Considerations on the Aesthetics of Ground Plan Drawings in the Renaissance David Bindman - The Black Page: The Ottoman Connection Giovanna Alberta Campitelli - Le Caccie die Papi Jonathan Unglaub - Guido Reni, Antonio Bruni, and a Poetics of Response Veronica Maria White - Drawings from the Gennari Inventory of 1719 The Artist Jan Piet Filedt Kok - The Minotaur in the Drawings of Peter Vos: An Alter Ego? Diletta Gamberini - 'Divine' or Not? Poetic Responses to the Art of Michelangelo Margaret K. Koerner - William Kentridge: Renaissance Man of Johannesburg Theory; Connoisseurship Horst Bredekamp - Erwin Panofskys Habilitation und die Rhythmik des Films Carlo Ginzburg - Mise en abyme: A Reframing Emilie E.S. Gordenker - Connoisseurship Revisited: The Case of Saul and David Meredith McNeill Hale - 'Rubens Only Whispers': The Reception of the Cambridge Bozzetti for the Triumph of the Eucharist Tapestry Series William Stenhouse - The Style and Substance of Ancient Coins: Louis Savot, Numismatics, and Connoisseurship in the Age of the Paper Museum List of Publications by David Freedberg