New Distributed Titles Fall 2009 - Oxbow Books

Pindar Press
Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting
A Study in Material Culture
by Rembrandt Duits
Silk fabrics woven with gold thread, predominantly produced in Italy, were depicted
frequently in Renaissance painting, both in costumes and as backdrops
for important figures. These painted textiles carried an economic and social significance
that a contemporary audience would have recognized as part of the
message conveyed by the picture. This volume focuses on examples from Italy
and the southern Netherlands dating from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth
centuries. Setting aside traditional notions of the hierarchy of the major
and minor arts, the book treats gold brocade and painting equally as exponents
of the special segment of Renaissance material culture that was art.
494p, 20 col & 207 b/w illus, hardback, 9781904597421, $300.00(s),
Pindar Press, December 2008.
Hieronymus Bosch
Late Work
by Charles D Cuttler
This volume presents three late triptychs, a major trio of Bosch’s maturity: the Haywain,
the Lisbon Temptation of St. Anthony, and the Garden of Earthly Delights. The author
presents Bosch’s unique view of Christ and salvation in union with hagiography, the
Devotio moderna (modern devotion), and medieval hermeneutics, a revelation of Bosch’s
immense erudition and overwhelming artistry. Bosch reinforced his concepts with supporting
casts of animals, natural and demonic, birds, and other iconographic elements.
Other influences affecting Bosch’s art, such as traveling, contemporary prints, Dante’s
Inferno, or religious tracts, and the attitudes of his ambience, are also examined.
356p, 146 col & b/w illus, hardback, 9781904597445, $240.00(s), Pindar Press, July 2009.
Artists’ Art in the Renaissance
by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Newly distributed by DBBC!
This book offers a series of case studies intended to introduce and define an important
class of fifteenth-century Italian art not previously recognized. It is argued that the paintings
and sculptures discussed were created privately by artists for personal satisfaction
and internal needs, outside the traditional framework of patronage and commercial gain.
Since there is no direct documentation from this period of a work being privately made,
the selection presented here is necessarily speculative. Instead, the essays focus on works
by Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Michelangelo, Bellini, and Titian that appear in the
artists’ testaments, letters of refusals to sell, and inventories showing ownership at the
time of death. The task at hand is to uncover the motivation and meaning of works of art
in which the medieval craftsman began to rise to the status of independent artist, and
the maker and the viewer confront each other face to face for the first time.
320p, 86 col & b/w illus, hardback, 9781904597438, $150.00(s), Pindar Press, July 2009.
renaissance studies
Visible Spirit
The Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini
by Irving Lavin
Volume I
Contents: Review of Rudolf Wittkower; Bernini and the Theater; Notes on
Sculptural Procedure from the Early Renaissance through Bernini; Bernini and
the Crossing of Saint Peter’s; Five Youthful Sculptures by Gianlorenzo Bernini
and a Revised Chronology of his Early Works; Bernini’s Death; Afterthoughts
on “Bernini’s Death”; Letter to the Editor on a review by Howard Hibbard;
Bernini and the Terracotta Sketch; On the Pedestal of Bernini’s Bust of the
Savior; Bernini and the Art of Social Satire; Bernini’s Memorial Plaque for
Carlo Barberini; Bernini’s Baldachin; Bernini’s Bust of Cardinal Montalto;
Bernini’s Cosmic Eagle; Bernini’s Image of the Sun King.
651p, 346 illus, hardback, 9781899828395, $300.00(s), Pindar Press. December 2007
Volume II
Contents: Bernini and Antiquity; A Poetical View; Bernini’s Portraits of
No-Body; Bernini’s Bust of Francesco I d’Este; Bernini’s Bust of the Medusa;
Bernini’s Bust of the Savior; Bernini’s Image of the Ideal Christian Monarch;
Bernini’s Bumbling Barberini Bees; Bernini-Bozzetti; A Berninesque Sculptor
in Mid-Eighteenth Century France; Bernini’s Death; Visions of Redemption;
The Rome of Alexander VII; Bernini and the Reverse of the Medal; The Young
Bernini; “Bozzetto Style”; Bernini and his Portraits of Royal Subjects; The Pope,
the Artist, and the Genius of the Place.
680p, 318 illus, hardback, 9781904597452, $300.00(s), Pindar Press, July 2009.
Volume III
Contents: Bernini at Saint Peter’s: singularis in singulis, in omnibus unicus.
118p, 346 illus, hardback, 9781904597469, $300.00(s), Pindar Press, July 2009.
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