The essays in Space, Image and Reform in Early Modern Art build on Marcia Hall's seminal contributions in several categories crucial for Renaissance studies, especially the spatiality of the church ...interior, the altarpiece's facture and affectivity, the notion of artistic style, and the controversy over images in the era of Counter Reform. The book works cumulatively to provide blocks of theoretical and empirical research on issues spanning the function and role of images in their contexts over two centuries.
The first comprehensive analysis of the artist's Roman ruin drawings. Three parts take us from Van Heemskerck's training to his Roman stay and his post-Roman phase. A catalog presents Van ...Heemskerck's drawings in up-to-date digital photographs.
In several of the 100-plus drawings that Haarlem artist Maerten van Heemskerck made while he was in Rome in the 1530s, he depicts the sculpture collections he visited in the Vatican, on the ...Capitoline and in the cortili and gardens of numerous Roman palaces. This is some of the earliest Northern 'collection imagery', and the collection environment commands as much of his pictorial attention as the sculptures themselves. The central argument of the essay is that van Heemskerck's novel images related to period conceptions of the uses and functions of memory, and suggests that his drawings had an important afterlife in the Flemish pictures of collections genre of the early seventeenth century.
