Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe / / ed. by Sean Roberts, Timothy McCall.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Eamon, William,; Fernández, Henry Dietrich,; Fiorenza, Giancarlo,; Massey, Lyle,; McCall, Timothy,; Roberts, Sean,; Ruvoldt, Maria,; Simons, Patricia,; Terry-Fritsch, Allie,
• TeilnehmendeR: Eamon, William.; Fernández, Henry Dietrich.; Fiorenza, Giancarlo.; Ruvoldt, Maria.; Simons, Patricia.; Terry-Fritsch, Allie.
• HerausgeberIn: McCall, Timothy,; Roberts, Sean,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Early Modern Studies ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Revealing Early Modern Secrecy -- 1 The Visual Dynamics of (Un)veiling in Early Modern Culture -- 2 On the Skins of Goats and Sheep (Un)masking the Secrets of Nature in Early Modern Popular Culture -- 3 Secrecy and the Production of Seignorial Space The Coretto of Torrechiara -- 4 Michelangelo's Open Secrets -- 5 Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, and the Secrets of Divine Wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino's Devotional Paintings -- 6 A Secret Space for a Secret Keeper Cardinal Bibbiena at the Vatican Palace -- 7 Networks of Urban Secrecy Tamburi, Anonymous Denunciations, and the Production of the Gaze in Fifteenth-Century Florence -- 8 Tricks of the Trade The Technical Secrets of Early Engraving -- 9 The Alchemical Womb Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum microcosmicum -- About the Contributors -- Index