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Power and Image in Early Modern Europe Power and Image in Early Modern Europe Edited by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire and Gaoheng Zhang Cambridge Scholars Publishing Power and Image in Early Modern Europe, Edited by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire and Gaoheng Zhang This book first published 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NE5 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2008 by Jessica Goethals, Valerie McGuire and Gaoheng Zhang and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-84718-445-6, ISBN (13): 9781847184450 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations....................................................................................vii Preface........................................................................................................ix Introduction................................................................................................xi PART I CONSOLIDATING POWER AND HEGEMONY THROUGH IMAGE NEGOTIATION Chapter One.................................................................................................3 Triumph and Law: Giorgio Vasari’s Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve and the Iconology of the “State of Exception” Carolin Behrmann Chapter Two..............................................................................................15 Anxious Masculinity, Affectation, and the Creation of Personal Image: Echoes of Quintilian in Castiglione’s Il libro del Cortegiano Jennifer Newman Chapter Three............................................................................................25 Mother’s Milk and Deborah’s Sword: The Anatomy of Joan of Arc in Henry VI Kathryn Falzareno PART II THE MOBILE REFERENT AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF SELF AND NATION Chapter Four..............................................................................................43 Echo and Narcissus: Labyrinths of the Self in Early Modern Music Ljubica Ilic Chapter Five..............................................................................................57 Aristocratic Spectacle: Visual and Literary Portraiture in the Seventeenth-Century French Salon Hiba Hafiz vi Table of Contents Chapter Six................................................................................................77 The Future of the Past Looks Bleak: Spenser’s Recycled Image and Baudrillard’s Simulacrum Thomas LeCarner PART III DEPARTURES FROM THE ORTHODOX: RE-IMAGING CONVENTION AND CULTURE Chapter Seven............................................................................................95 Taking Mary’s Pulse: Cartesianism and Modernity in Rembrandt’s The Death of the Virgin Elissa Auerbach Chapter Eight...........................................................................................119 Secular Relic: The Spectacle of the Body in Decay on the Early Modern English Stage N. M. Imbracsio Chapter Nine............................................................................................129 Modernity and Byzantine Icons Lilia Verchinina Notes........................................................................................................137 Bibliography............................................................................................165 Contributors.............................................................................................183 Index........................................................................................................187 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 1-1 Giorgio Vasari, The Wounding of Coligny............................................4 1-2 Giorgio Vasari, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve.....................5 1-3 Giorgio Vasari, The Lit de Justice of Charles IX..................................5 1-4 Detail of The Wounding of Coligny.......................................................8 1-5 Detail of The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve..............................10 1-6 Detail of The lit de Justice of Charles IX ...........................................12 7-1 Rembrandt van Rijn, The Death of the Virgin.....................................96 7-2 Theodor Galle and Carel de Mallery, The Death of the Virgin, illustration from Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Nuper reformatum, & Pii V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum: ad instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII. Recogniti, Antwerp, 1652..................................................101 7-3 Theodor Galle and Carel de Mallery, The Burial of the Virgin, illustration from Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Nuper reformatum, & Pii V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum: ad instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII. Recogniti, Antwerp, 1652..................................................102 7-4 Theodor Galle and Carel de Mallery, The Assumption of the Virgin, illustration from Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis, Nuper reformatum, & Pii V. Pontificis Maximi iussu editum: ad instar Breviarii Romani sub Urbano VIII. Recogniti, Antwerp, 1652..................................................102 7-5 The Chapel of Our Lady in Time of Need near Heiloo with Saint Willebrord, illustration from Richard Verstegen, Antiquitates Belgicae of Nederlandsche Oudtheden, Amsterdam, 1700....................................103 viii List of Illustrations 7-6 Theodor Matham, As Death Draws Near, illustration from Roberti Francesco Romolo Bellarmino, De arte bene moriendi libri dvo, Amsterdam, 1626....................................................................................105 7-7 Rembrandtvan Rijn, Saskia Lying in Bed..........................................107 7-8 Albrecht Dürer, The Death of the Virgin...........................................108 7-9 Dirck Pietersz. Crabeth, The Death of the Virgin Mary....................108 7-10 Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp....110 7-11 Frans van Schooten, Man Observing a Diagram of the Retinal Image, illustration from René Descartes, “La Dioptrique,” Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, & cherche la verité dans les sciences. Plus la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete Methode, Leiden, 1637...............................................113 PREFACE This book is the fruit of a vibrant and intellectually exploratory conference, “Power and Image in Early Modern Europe,” hosted by New York University’s Department of Italian Studies on April 7-8, 2006. A group of young scholars gathered from across disciplines to share their reflections on how contemporary theory may deepen our understanding of early modernity. New York University’s Graduate School of Arts and Science, the Dean’s Office of the Graduate School of Arts and Science, the Medieval and Renaissance Center, and the Casa Italiana Zerilli- Marimò graciously sponsored the conference. The editors are indebted to the NYU Italian Studies professors for their support, with particular gratitude to Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Department Chair; Virginia Cox, Director of Graduate Studies; and Jane Tylus, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, for their generous help in preparing the conference and this book; to Professor Louise Rice from the Department of Fine Arts for moderating a discussion on art history; and to Professor Stefano Albertini, Director of the Casa Italiana, for providing an optimal locale for learning and exchange. Finally, we extend a warm thanks to Lindsay Eufusia, and, in Rome, John Thavis and Chiara Moriconi for their assistance with the images reprinted here.
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