Italian Art
New & Forthcoming Titles
November 2026
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Reconsidering Raphael
Yvonne Elet, Sheryl E. Reiss, Linda Wolk-Simon (eds)
Reverence for Raphael as the “Prince of Painters” by centuries of worshipful artists and covetous patrons and collectors alike has contributed to the marginalization of his significant activity in myriad other fields, and an underappreciation of the personal networks that facilitated his extraordinary productivity—an imbalance that the new investigative approaches embraced in this volume of essays set out to redress.
412 p., 16 b/w ills, 220 col. ills, 3 musical examples, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-60427-5 (HB)
Published Outside a Series
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Raphael &
Lisa Pon
Raphael worked well with others, more so than many Renaissance artists. In this long-awaited book, Lisa Pon reassesses Raphael's collaborations in painting and many other media, thereby re-evaluating period and current attitudes towards originality, authorship, artistic practice and value.
256 p., 10 b/w ills, 144 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-86-5 (HB) / eISBN 978-1-915487-99-5
Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History
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Holy Laboratory
Altars and Sacred Spaces in Venice
ca. 1300–1797
Lorenzo Buonanno, Gianmario Guidarelli (eds)
Examining liturgy and popular piety, morphology and patronage, mobility and cross-pollination, as well as the afterlives of altarpieces themselves, these studies reveal Venice, the nexus of European and Mediterranean culture and commerce, as a laboratory for holy spaces and objects.
180 p., 6 b/w ills, 89 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-22-3 (HB)
In the Shadow of the Lion of St. Mark, vol. 4
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The Crystal Heart
Love, Poetry, and Portraiture in Renaissance Italy
Lina Bolzoni
In his Canzoniere, Petrarch evokes the image of the “crystal heart” as a metaphor for a correspondence between the inner self and external appearance. Expanding on the classical theme of the soul’s open window, the metaphor of the crystal heart embodies the utopia of amorous transparency, conveying the desire to cast aside the barriers between interior and exterior, between emotion and expression, rendering love perfectly visible from the outside. Using this image as a heuristic tool, Lina Bolzoni takes us into an original investigation of Renaissance literature and portraiture.
340 p., 1 b/w ill., 84 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-50-6 (HB)
Renovatio Artium, vol. 16
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The Vatican Cope
Art, Style and Design from Westminster to Rome
Michael A. Michael (ed)
This volume reviews the evidence for the production of ‘opus anglicanum’ in London during the thirteenth century and provides stylistic evidence for dating for placing the cope within the orbit of the Westminster court during the reign Edward I (1272-1307).
164 p., 10 b/w ills, 151 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-53-7 (HB)
Studies in English Medieval Embroidery, vol. 3
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Scultori Fiamminghi
Artistic Exchange in Sculpture between the Low Countries and Italy
1500–1620
Marjan Debaene, Babette Rummens (eds)
From the late medieval period onwards, an interplay of different factors stimulated sculptors from the Low Countries to work abroad. From the first half of the sixteenth century, artists increasingly travelled to Italy. These so-called Scultori Fiamminghi crossed the Alps to study classical monuments and sculptures firsthand, to draw inspiration from the new Renaissance style and, as a result, to both develop their own artistic expression and seek commissions from new patrons. The dynamic exchange between the Northern and Southern Renaissance gave rise to fascinating stylistic cross-pollination.
432 p., 20 b/w ills, 330 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-912554-97-3 (HB)
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The Loggia in Italian Communes
Architecture and Visual Regimes in Late Medieval Republics
Kim Sexton
From the 11th century onwards, loggias put the new life-world of self-governing communes in Italy on view for a savvy public, showcasing leading citizens engaged in activities which, for the times, were ethically cutting-edge; in so doing, these deceptively simple buildings helped advance progressive attitudes toward commerce, sociability, and self-rule before the dawn of the modern era.
198 p., 69 b/w ills, 18 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-61751-0 (PB) / eISBN 978-2-503-61752-7
Architectura Medii Aevi, vol. 16
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Venice Reimagined
The Resurgence of View Painting in Venice after the Fall of the Serenissima between 1797 and 1866
William Barcham
This book explores how nineteenth-century Venetian viewscapes deviated from those of Antonio Canaletto and Francesco Guardi of the preceding one hundred years.
224 p., 186 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-71-1 (HB)
In the Shadow of the Lion of St. Mark, vol. 7
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Before the Ghetto
The Medici and the Segregation of the Jews in Sixteenth-Century Tuscany
Piergabriele Mancuso (ed)
In 1570, Cosimo I de Medici ordered the segregation of Tuscan Jews within the city. This volume examines this pivotal moment in Tuscan Jewish history and presents the first annotated edition of the official documents that led to the communitys urban segregation.
xiv + 302 p., 20 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-1-915487-00-1 (HB)
The Medici Archive Project, vol. 8
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Opera, Scenography, and Social Standing
The Barberini Court in Rome
1628–1656
Leila Zammar
Through the investigation of numerous primary and secondary sources and digital reconstructions, this monograph sheds new light on the interconnections between the Barberini family politics and the development of scenography in seventeenth-century Rome.
321 p., 40 b/w ills, 68 col. ills, 2026
ISBN 978-2-503-58498-0 (HB) / eISBN 978-2-503-58499-7
European Festival Studies: 1450-1700
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Selected Forthcoming Titles
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Problems in the History of Venetian Sculpture and their Solution
Anne Markham Schulz
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Artistic Encounters in Trecento Italy
Theresa Flanigan, Trinita Kennedy (eds)
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Visual Networks of Healing in Renaissance Italy
Sandra Cardarelli, Valentina Živković (eds)
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Women and Gender in Trecento Art & Architecture
Images, Ideals, Realities
Judith Steinhoff (ed)
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Girolamo Righettino
Allégorie et topographie dans l’Italie de la Contre-Réforme
Denis Ribouillault, Fannie Caron-Roy
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The Three Natures
Gardens and Landscapes of the Italian Renaissance
Anatole Tchikine (ed)
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The Italian Madrigal in Performance
Architectural Settings, Materiality,
and Social Spaces
Stefano Lorenzetti, Elisa Sala, Livio Ticli (eds)
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Art Across the Iberian World
Connecting Spanish Italy and Latin America
Joris Van Gastel, Nora Guggenbühler (eds)
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