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Visual cultures of secrecy in early modern Europe / edited by Timothy McCall, Sean Roberts, and Giancarlo Fiorenza.

Contributor(s): McCall, Timothy [com] | Roberts, Sean E [com] | Fiorenza, Giancarlo, 1970- [com]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Early modern studies series: 11.Publisher: Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2013]Description: x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781612480923 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1612480926 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Secrecy in art | Arts, European -- Themes, motives | Arts and society -- EuropeDDC classification: 709.4 LOC classification: NX650.S435 | V57 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The visual dynamics of (un)veiling in early modern culture / Patricia Simons -- On the skins of goats and sheep : (un)masking the secrets of nature in early modern popular culture / William Eamon -- Secrecy and the production of seignorial space : the Coretto of Torrechiara / Timothy McCall -- Michelangelo's open secrets / Maria Ruvoldt -- Hebrew, hieroglyphs, and the secrets of divine wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino's devotional paintings / Giancarlo Fiorenza -- A secret space for a secret keeper : Cardinal Bibbiena at the Vatican Palace / Henry Dietrich Fernández -- Networks of urban secrecy : tamburi, anonymous denunciations, and the production of the gaze in fifteenth-century Florence / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- Tricks of the trade : the technical secrets of early engraving / Sean Roberts -- The alchemical womb : Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum microcosmicum / Lyle Massey.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The visual dynamics of (un)veiling in early modern culture / Patricia Simons -- On the skins of goats and sheep : (un)masking the secrets of nature in early modern popular culture / William Eamon -- Secrecy and the production of seignorial space : the Coretto of Torrechiara / Timothy McCall -- Michelangelo's open secrets / Maria Ruvoldt -- Hebrew, hieroglyphs, and the secrets of divine wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino's devotional paintings / Giancarlo Fiorenza -- A secret space for a secret keeper : Cardinal Bibbiena at the Vatican Palace / Henry Dietrich Fernández -- Networks of urban secrecy : tamburi, anonymous denunciations, and the production of the gaze in fifteenth-century Florence / Allie Terry-Fritsch -- Tricks of the trade : the technical secrets of early engraving / Sean Roberts -- The alchemical womb : Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum microcosmicum / Lyle Massey.

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