"A crucial aim of the present study is to consider how Floris, an artist of international renown in his own day, could see his fortunes reversed and end up marg

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Senses of Touch anatomizes the uniquely human hand as a rhetorical figure for dignity and deformity in early modern culture. It concerns a valuational shift fro

This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode.

This fascinating new look at the artistic legacy of the Tudors reveals the dynasty’s enduring influence on the arts of Renaissance England and beyond. Ruling