Reframing the Renaissance : visual culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: x, 394 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. Notes: Illustrated endpapers. Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-380) and index. Contents: Reframing the Renaissance / Claire Farago -- The pathos of distance : Byzantium in the gaze of Renaissance Europe and modern scholarship / Anthony Cutler -- Italian sculptors and sculpture outside of Italy (chiefly in central Europe) : problems of approach, possibilities of reception / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann -- "Vision itself has its history" : "race," nation, and Renaissance art history / Claire Farago -- Re-visioning Raphael as a "scientific painter" / Janis Bell -- "Popular" art in Renaissance Italy : early response to the Holy Mountain at Varallo / Alessandro Nova -- Art theory as ideology : Gabriele Paleotti's hierarchical notion of painting's universality and reception / Pamela M. Jones -- Languages of gesture in sixteenth-century Mexico : some antecedents and transmutations / Pauline Moffitt Watts -- From lies to truth : colonial ekphrasis and the act of crosscultural translation / Thomas Cummins -- "Wrought by no artist's hand" : the natural, the artificial, the exotic, and the scientific in some artifacts from the Renaissance / Martin Kemp -- Animals as cultural signs : a Medici menagerie in the grotto at Castello / Claudia Lazzaro -- Collecting cultures : a Mexican manuscript in the Vatican Library / Eloise Quin?ones Keber -- Wild woman in colonial Mexico : an encounter of European and Aztec concepts of the other / Cecilia F. Klein -- Colony and cartography : shifting signs on indigenous maps of New Spain / Dana Leibsohn -- Luca Signorelli's Rule of Antichrist and the Christian encounter with the infidel / Jonathan B. Riess -- Iconology, ideology, and cultural encounter : Panofsky, Althusser, and the scene of recognition / W.J.T. Mitchell.Subjects: Art, Renaissance; Art, Colonial Latin America Foreign influences; Art, Latin American Foreign influences; Art, Renaissance Influence; Intercultural communication; Art, Renaissance Influence;Art de la Renaissance. 1 Kg.…