A nontriumphant Renaissance
The reformation that never happened in Italy
Pre- and post-Trent
Range of the study
Excavations in Christian art
Effects of estrangement
"These are your idols, which you have put in my temple"
Theater and its double
Aart historians and their precursors
The time of the other
Attending effigies interior cult and exterior cult whores and idols
Erasure, defacement, unmasking
Reform as art restoration
Defamiliarized icons
The "puppet painter" gets a hearing
Erasmus unmasks the saints
Excavations of the image
A picture of indeterminate subject and uncertain finish
Threshold painting
Figures in a loose and unready state
Images from the underside
Drawing brought to the surface
Reconfigurations
Christian art that is no longer
Related experiments
Re-mediations of the altarpiece
The painter's new profession
Raphael extracts the icon
Vision as re-mediation
Structures of archaism christocentrism
Transmutation chamber
Christ as idol
Animated statues
Sculpture and the pictorial imaginary
The idol in Saint Augustine's study
Statue + column = idolatry in the round and from behind
Showdown in the arena of painting
Ficino's ambivalent defense of image magic
The crucifix as anti-statue
The antique statue of Christ
"Christ, who deserved a statue, received instead a cross"
A statue of Christ from the Holy Land
Replication and retroactivation
An antique Christ at the Minerva
Rhetorical interferences
Form as symbol
Avatars of the golden calf in the works of Andrea Riccio
Gregorio Cortese commissions art at Santa Giustina, 1513
Moses and polytheism
A Moses-idol
Repetition compulsion
Christ as idol
The work of conversion
Uncompromising logic
Fire takes the form of bronze
Recursions
Religion on earth
Soft iconoclasm
Architecture as image
Forms of iconophobia in Italy
A semiotic contest
Replacement and reversion
Early interventions at Florence and Siena
Figuration and fulfillment, and vice versa
"All the other things are shadows"
The tabernacle in the matrix
"So long as it is not about saints"
Raimondi's I modi in Giberti's Rome
Pornography as iconoclasm
Nonprocreative art
A new model of church art at Verona cathedral
The virgin becomes architecture
Borromeo interprets Giberti
The most abstract altarpiece of the Italian Renaissance
The Vicenza altar and reform circles in northern Italy
Adventures in aniconism
The virtues of stones
The world is an animal
Displacement.
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The controversy of Renaissance art by Alexander Nagel. ISBN 9780226567723. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
