The controversy of Renaissance art / Alexander Nagel.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nagel, Alexander
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, ©2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • A nontriumphant Renaissance
  • The reformation that never happened in Italy
  • Pre- and post-Trent
  • Range of the study
  • Excavations in Christian art
  • Effects of estrangement
  • "These are your idols, which you have put in my temple"
  • Theater and its double
  • Aart historians and their precursors
  • The time of the other
  • Attending effigies interior cult and exterior cult whores and idols
  • Erasure, defacement, unmasking
  • Reform as art restoration
  • Defamiliarized icons
  • The "puppet painter" gets a hearing
  • Erasmus unmasks the saints
  • Excavations of the image
  • A picture of indeterminate subject and uncertain finish
  • Threshold painting
  • Figures in a loose and unready state
  • Images from the underside
  • Drawing brought to the surface
  • Reconfigurations
  • Christian art that is no longer
  • Related experiments
  • Re-mediations of the altarpiece
  • The painter's new profession
  • Raphael extracts the icon
  • Vision as re-mediation
  • Structures of archaism christocentrism
  • Transmutation chamber
  • Christ as idol
  • Animated statues
  • Sculpture and the pictorial imaginary
  • The idol in Saint Augustine's study
  • Statue + column = idolatry in the round and from behind
  • Showdown in the arena of painting
  • Ficino's ambivalent defense of image magic
  • The crucifix as anti-statue
  • The antique statue of Christ
  • "Christ, who deserved a statue, received instead a cross"
  • A statue of Christ from the Holy Land
  • Replication and retroactivation
  • An antique Christ at the Minerva
  • Rhetorical interferences
  • Form as symbol
  • Avatars of the golden calf in the works of Andrea Riccio
  • Gregorio Cortese commissions art at Santa Giustina, 1513
  • Moses and polytheism
  • A Moses-idol
  • Repetition compulsion
  • Christ as idol
  • The work of conversion
  • Uncompromising logic
  • Fire takes the form of bronze
  • Recursions
  • Religion on earth
  • Soft iconoclasm
  • Architecture as image
  • Forms of iconophobia in Italy
  • A semiotic contest
  • Replacement and reversion
  • Early interventions at Florence and Siena
  • Figuration and fulfillment, and vice versa
  • "All the other things are shadows"
  • The tabernacle in the matrix
  • "So long as it is not about saints"
  • Raimondi's I modi in Giberti's Rome
  • Pornography as iconoclasm
  • Nonprocreative art
  • A new model of church art at Verona cathedral
  • The virgin becomes architecture
  • Borromeo interprets Giberti
  • The most abstract altarpiece of the Italian Renaissance
  • The Vicenza altar and reform circles in northern Italy
  • Adventures in aniconism
  • The virtues of stones
  • The world is an animal
  • Displacement.