The Mannerist Altarpiece: Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004694378)

Vendor: Steven J. Cody
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Format: Hardcover
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The Mannerist Altarpiece: Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy

$149.00

The Mannerist Altarpiece: Painting and Religious Experience in Sixteenth-Century Italy

$149.00
Format: Hardcover
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Formally elegant, stylistically refined, rarefied in their display of knowledge and skill, Mannerist altarpieces are endlessly fascinating. Whereas previous scholarship aligns Mannerism with the world of secular concerns, the authors included in this volume chart a different course of interpretation. According to our argument, Mannerist altarpieces offer spectators a type of religious experience so stylized, so exquisitely beautiful that it becomes a work of art itself. In this respect, The Mannerist Altarpiece raises new possibilities for thinking about the field of Italian Renaissance art history, its past, present, and future.

Contributors include Mattia Biffis, Steven J. Cody, Sally J. Cornelison, Alexis Culotta, Marcia B. Hall, Tiffany Lynn Hunt, Stuart Lingo, Celeste McNamara, Caroline Paganussi, Giorgio Tagliaferro, and Mary Vaccaro.

Author: Steven J. Cody
ISBN-10: 9004694374
ISBN-13: 9789004694378
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/09/2026
Pages: 398
Format: Hardcover
By Steven J. Cody
By Steven J. Cody
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Steven J. Cody is Associate Professor of Art History at Purdue University Fort Wayne and the author of Andrea del Sarto: Splendor and Renewal in the Renaissance Altarpiece (Brill 2020). As a scholar of Italian art and culture from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, his research explores the intersections of art, philosophy, and theology.

Tiffany Lynn Hunt is a Professor of Art History at the Savannah College of Art and Design. She specializes in Early Modern art and architecture of the global Mediterranean, with a primary research focus on the intersections of pre- and post-Tridentine church history and theology in the visual culture of the papal court in Rome.

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