The transformation of vernacular expression in early modern arts / / edited by Joost Keizer and Todd M. Richardson.

• Superior document: Intersections ; v. 19
• TeilnehmendeR: Keizer, Joost M.; Richardson, Todd M.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; v. 19.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xix, 402 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In response to the dominance of Latin as the language of intellectual debate in early modern Europe, regional centers started to develop a new emphasis on vernacular languages and forms of cultural expression. This book shows that the local acts as a mark of distinction in the early modern cultural...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction: The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts / Joost Keizer and Todd M. Richardson
• Petrarch’s Italy, Sovereign Poetry and the Hand of Simone Martini / C. Jean Campbell
• ‘Salve Maria Gods Moeder Ghepresen.’ The Salve Regina and the Vernacular in the Art of Hans Memling, Anthonis de Roovere, and Jacob Obrecht / Jessica E. Buskirk
• Going Local: Three Sixteenth-Century Florentine Views on Donatello’s St. George / Lex Hermans
• As Many Lands, As Many Customs. Vernacular Self-Awareness Among the Netherlandish Rhetoricians / Bart Ramakers
• Frans Hals and the Vernacular / David A. Levine
• The Hybrid Text: Transformation of the Vernacular in Beware the Cat / Trudy Ko
• Local Terrains: Imaging the Vernacular Landscape in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp / Alexandra Onuf
• Als ich can: How Jan van Eyck Extended the Vernacular from Dutch Poetry to Oil Painting / Jamie L. Smith
• Pictorial Babel: Inventing the Flemish Visual Vernacular / James J. Bloom
• Visualizing Vitruvius: Stylistic Pluralism in Serlio’s Sixth Book on Architecture? / Eelco Nagelsmit
• Exotic Imitation and Local Cultivation: A Study on the Art Form of Dutch Delftware Between 1640 and 1720 / Jing Sun
• Index Nominum.