ABSTRACT
This collection of essays by major scholars in the field explores how the rich intersections between Italy and Spain during the early modern period resulted in a confluence of cultural ideals. Various means of exchange and convergence are explored through two main catalysts: humans—their trips or resettlements—and objects—such as books, paintings, sculptures, and prints. The visual and textual evidence of the transmission of ideas, iconographies and styles are examined, such as triumphal ephemera, treatises on painting, the social status of the artist, collections and their display, church decoration, and funerary monuments, providing a more nuanced understanding of the exchanges of styles, forms and ideals across southern Europe.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|17 pages
Domenico Fancelli and the Tomb of the Catholic Kings
Carrara, Italian Wars and the Spanish Renaissance
chapter 3|22 pages
Architecture of the Retablo between Spain and Italy
On the Work of Jacopo L’Indaco, Alonso Berruguete and Diego de Siloé (1520–1530)
chapter 5|9 pages
Michelangelo Re-read
A Note on the Reception of His Pictorial Language in Spanish Sculpture of the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
chapter 6|22 pages
Circulation of Sculpture Across the Spanish Empire
The Case of Martino Regio’s Genoese Workshop and the Multiple Variations of His Name
chapter 8|21 pages
Courtiers, Fables and Dictionaries
Italian Books in the Collections of Velázquez, Carducho and Guerra Coronel
chapter 10|16 pages
Some Spanish Paintings in Florentine Collections
The Legacy of the Iberian Journey of Cosimo III de’ Medici
