{"product_id":"es61","title":"Spanish Italy \u0026 the Spanish Americas: Connected Art Histories","description":"\u003ch5 style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003eDescription\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the long sixteenth century, the Spanish Empire encompassed much of what is now \u003cbr\u003eItaly and a large part of the Americas. Yet while the arts of the two regions invite comparison—they were produced in viceroyalties, with Catholicism as the imperial religion, in territories shaped by maritime power and the new art of print—the thriving fields of Italian and Colonial Latin American studies have largely flourished in isolation from one another. The goal of this book is to propose a connected art history of the Spanish possessions in Italy and in the Americas, one that can also impact the way art history in general is studied, taught, researched, and written today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMICHAEL COLE\u003c\/strong\u003e is Howard McP. Davis Professor of Art History and Archaeology at \u003cbr\u003eColumbia University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSofonisba’s Lesson: A Renaissance Artist and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHer World\u003c\/em\u003e (2nd ed. 2026) and \u003cem\u003eLeonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figur\u003c\/em\u003ee (2014). \u003cbr\u003eWith Alessandra Russo he was awarded a Getty Foundation Connecting Art History \u003cbr\u003eGrant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eALESSANDRA RUSSO\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Professor in the Department of Latin American and Iberian \u003cbr\u003eCultures at Columbia University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eA New Antiquity. Art and \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eHumanity as Universal\u003c\/em\u003e (2024; Best Book award of the Society for Iberian Global Art), \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Untranslatable Image\u003c\/em\u003e (2015), and \u003cem\u003eEl Realismo Circular\u003c\/em\u003e (2005)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe important visual network that connected disparate lands under Spanish hegemony \u003cbr\u003ein the early modern period is illuminated in this volume. Through robust research the \u003cbr\u003eauthors argue for the power of visual rhetoric and its ability to convey the religious, \u003cbr\u003eeconomic and socio-political values of the elite or governing class, both local and global. \u003cbr\u003eMulti-faceted studies demonstrate how the arts, from prints to architecture, were exploited to convey the imperial mandate of Crown and Church, disseminating propagandistic messages intended to legitimize conquest, bridge provincial differences and \u003cbr\u003econsolidate power.\u003cbr\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eJeanette Favrot Peterson\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of California, Santa Barbara\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis innovative series of essays considers Italy as an overlooked part of the Spanish Empire. Authors seek points of convergence in the visual arts between Spain, Spanish Italy, and the Latin American colonies by focusing on clusters of little-known works by little-known artists. Their comparative approach is often illuminating and generates thought-provoking and geographically expansive aperçus into the early modern visual arts. \u003cbr\u003e-\u003cstrong\u003eEvonne Levy\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Cole \u0026 Alessandra Russo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46076095954978,"sku":"ES61","price":59.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0572\/0181\/9682\/files\/ES61coverfinal.jpg?v=1784750531","url":"https:\/\/pubs.crrs.ca\/products\/es61","provider":"CRRS Publications","version":"1.0","type":"link"}