Art / Classical studies
Giotto’s Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility Henrike Christiane Lange | University of California, Berkeley
This groundbreaking book takes readers on an eyeopening tour through one of the most celebrated monuments in the world – Giotto’s Arena Chapel. Illustrated with almost 200 colour plates, this volume enables scholars and students to rediscover a key monument of Art and Architecture history and to see it with new eyes.
350pp Oct. 2022 9781316511046 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 50.00 eISBN 9781009036450
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Italy, Cyprus, and Artistic Exchange in the Medieval Mediterranean Anthi Andronikou | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy Péter Bokody | University of Plymouth
This book is the first comprehensive study of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. It examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing. It offers a historical reconstruction of multiple views that have evident relevance to our contemporary situation.
300pp Jan. 2023 9781009100687 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009122528
The Villa Farnesina Palace of Venus in Renaissance Rome James Grantham Turner | University of California, Berkeley
This monograph probes the complex Artistic contacts between Italy and Cyprus, c.1200-1400. The book, which falls within the wider discourse on Italian and Byzantine visual cultures, historicizes these contacts and contributes to a broader understanding of cultural production, transmission and convergence in the medieval Mediterranean.
This book restores the original vision of the beloved Villa Farnesina–a Palace of Venus celebrating aesthetic, social and erotic pleasure, set among lush gardens with fountains, grotto, pool and banqueting-pavilion, now vanished. It will appeal to in scholars interested in Renaissance Art, Architecture and history.
350pp Sep. 2022 9781316510926 Hardback GBP 75.00 / USD 99.99 eISBN 9781009039055
400pp Sep. 2022 9781316511015 Hardback GBP 94.99 / USD 125.00 eISBN 9781009036351
Saints, Miracles, and Social Problems in Italian Renaissance Art
Transforming the Church Interior in Renaissance Florence
Diane Bullen Presciutti | University of Essex
The book reveals how images of saints’ miracles shaped perceptions of social problems related to gender, sexuality, and honor in Renaissance Italy. It will be of interest to specialists in late medieval and early modern culture (especially Art history, social history, gender, and religion) as well as undergraduate and graduate students.
350pp Mar. 2023 9781009300834 Hardback GBP 100.00 / USD 130.00 eISBN 9781009300803
Seeing Color in Classical Art Theory, Practice, and Reception, from Antiquity to the Present Jennifer M. S. Stager | The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland
This book will appeal to scholars and researchers interested in the history of colors and optics, ancient Greek Art and its connections with wider Mediterranean contact cultures. Analyzing the dyes, pigments, stones, eArth, and metals, this book examines the traces of color a variety of media in ancient Art works.
350pp Nov. 2022 9781316516454 Hardback GBP 39.99 / USD 49.99 eISBN 9781009030212
Screens and Choir Spaces, from the Middle Ages to Tridentine Reform Joanne Allen | American University, Washington DC
In Renaissance Florence, churches were once internally divided by monumental screens, impressive Artistic structures which separated the laity from the clergy. This book reconstructs the social and visual effects of these layouts and examines the religious and aesthetic motivations behind the elimination of screens in the CounterReformation. 366pp May. 2022 9781108833592 Hardback GBP 90.00 / USD 120.00 eISBN 9781108985659
Classical studies Ancient history A Commentary on Panegyrici Latini II(12) An Oration Delivered by Pacatus Drepanius before the Emperor Theodosius I in the Senate at Rome, AD 389 Roger Rees | University of St Andrews, Scotland
The renowned Gallic poet Pacatus Drepanius journeyed to Rome in the summer of AD 389 to deliver a speech to the Emperor Theodosius; both men stood for the first time before the Roman Senators. This edition provides a complete Latin text and English translation, with extensive introduction and full commentary. 400pp Dec. 2022 9781107155046 Hardback GBP 120.00 / USD 155.00 eISBN 9781316651261