Diane Wolfthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 1084096 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane Wolfthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolfthal |
| SIGNATURE | WOLFTHAL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rice University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eco-Violence, Cultural Violence, and the Almost Human in a Fifteenth-Century French Chronicle
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400–1700
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400–1700. Katherine Aron-Beller. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. xii + 426 pp. $79.95. - Volume 78 Issue 1
Jan de Beer: Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp
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The Flemish Primitives VI: Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The Bernard van Orley Group
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800
Joseph Shatzmiller. Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
In his latest book, Joseph Shatzmiller marries economic history and art history to explore the role of the marketplace in the exchange of aesthetic values in medieval Europe. The first part of the book examines Jewish moneylenders as agents of cultural transmission who received Christian art as pawns. Chapter 1 focuses on the humblest moneylenders, chapter 2 on those whose pawns included liturgical objects, and chapter 3 on the wealthiest pawnbro…
Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation
Margaret Koster. Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation. Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 49. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. 178 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. 荤125. ISBN: 978–1–905375–15–8. - Volume 63 Issue 1
European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago
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A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750
Margaret R. Miles. A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiii + 177 pp. index. illus. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–520–25348–3. - Volume 61 Issue 3
Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
Ron Spronk, Catherine A. Metzger, and John Oliver Hand. Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-12155-5 . - Volume 60 Issue 3
Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research
Berhard Ridderbos, Anne van Buren, and Henk Van Veen, eds. Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. + 482 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-89236-816-0. - Volume 59 Issue 3
Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables, all printed at Christian presses in Venice and Verona. The long-neglected manuscript includes more than one hundred drawings, here reproduced for the first time, which are striking…
Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews
Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews is the first comprehensive attempt to present the wealth of primary documents relating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - responsa, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. The book traces the chronological course of different phases of marriage (ma…
Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period - beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening - the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebra…
The Fabric of Images: European Paintings on Textile Supports in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries . Caroline Villers
Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
Thomas P. Campbell. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. (Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalogue.) x + 594 pp. + 250 color pls. + 126 b/w pls. index, illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-09370-5. - Volume 56 Issue 3
Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing . Lynn F. Jacobs
Images of Rape: The "Heroic Tradition" and Its Alternatives
1. 'Heroic' rape imagery 2. Rape imagery in medieval picture Bibles 3. The children of Mars: soldiers as rapists 4. Rape imagery in the context of law: legal treatises and justice paintings 5. The greatest possible sorrow: Christine de Pizan and the representation of rape 6. Two conceptions of the sexual aggressor: the user of magical images and the married woman.
Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives
Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
Northern Painting from Pucelle to Bruegel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: "Karel Van Mander's "Schilder-Boeck
A treatise on Dutch art on par with Vasari's critical history of Italian art, Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck (or Book on Picturing) has long been recognized for its critical and historical influence--and yet, until now, no comprehensive account of the book's conception, aims, and impact has been available. In this in-depth analysis of the content and context of Van Mander's work, Walter S. Melion reveals the Schilder-Boeck's central importance…
The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop
Stephen H. Goddard. The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop. (Verhandelingen van de Koninkhjke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schöne Kunsten van België. Klasse der Schöne Kunsten, Jaargang 46, Number 38.) Brussels: Koninkhjke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten, 1984. 43 figs. + 192 pp. BF800. - Volume 42 Issue 2
Agnes van den Bossche: Early Netherlandish Painter
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Agnes van den Bossche: Early Netherlandish Painter
The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop
Stephen H. Goddard. The Master of Frankfurt and his Shop. (Verhandelingen van de Koninkhjke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schöne Kunsten van België. Klasse der Schöne Kunsten, Jaargang 46, Number 38.) Brussels: Koninkhjke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten, 1984. 43 figs. + 192 pp. BF800. - Volume 42 Issue 2
Shaping the Netherlandish Canon: "Karel Van Mander's "Schilder-Boeck
A treatise on Dutch art on par with Vasari's critical history of Italian art, Karel van Mander's Schilder-Boeck (or Book on Picturing) has long been recognized for its critical and historical influence--and yet, until now, no comprehensive account of the book's conception, aims, and impact has been available. In this in-depth analysis of the content and context of Van Mander's work, Walter S. Melion reveals the Schilder-Boeck's central importance…
Northern Painting from Pucelle to Bruegel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Images of Rape: The "Heroic Tradition" and Its Alternatives
1. 'Heroic' rape imagery 2. Rape imagery in medieval picture Bibles 3. The children of Mars: soldiers as rapists 4. Rape imagery in the context of law: legal treatises and justice paintings 5. The greatest possible sorrow: Christine de Pizan and the representation of rape 6. Two conceptions of the sexual aggressor: the user of magical images and the married woman.
Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives
Heretics or Daughters of Israel? The Crypto-Jewish Women of Castile
Early Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550: Medieval Tastes and Mass Marketing . Lynn F. Jacobs
The Fabric of Images: European Paintings on Textile Supports in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries . Caroline Villers
Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence
Thomas P. Campbell. Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence. London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. (Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalogue.) x + 594 pp. + 250 color pls. + 126 b/w pls. index, illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-09370-5. - Volume 56 Issue 3
Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in the Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy
This is the first comprehensive study of the images in five profusely illustrated Yiddish books that were produced in sixteenth-century Italy: a manuscript of Jewish customs illustrated by its scribe, and two books of customs, a chivalric romance, and a book of fables, all printed at Christian presses in Venice and Verona. The long-neglected manuscript includes more than one hundred drawings, here reproduced for the first time, which are striking…
Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews
Marriage Rituals Italian Style: A Historical Anthropological Perspective on Early Modern Italian Jews is the first comprehensive attempt to present the wealth of primary documents relating to marriage rituals in Jewish Italian communities - responsa, private letters, court protocols, defamating books, love stories, material objects - and place them in historical context. The book traces the chronological course of different phases of marriage (ma…
Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe
This comprehensive and richly illustrated catalogue focuses on the finest illustrated manuscripts produced in Europe during the great epoch in Flemish illumination. During this aesthetically fertile period - beginning in 1467 with the reign of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold and ending in 1561 with the death of the artist Simon Bening - the art of book painting was raised to a new level of sophistication. Sharing inspiration with the celebra…
Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research
Berhard Ridderbos, Anne van Buren, and Henk Van Veen, eds. Early Netherlandish Paintings: Rediscovery, Reception, and Research. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. + 482 pp. index. illus. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-89236-816-0. - Volume 59 Issue 3
Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
Ron Spronk, Catherine A. Metzger, and John Oliver Hand. Prayers and Portraits: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006. xii + 340 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $75. ISBN: 0-300-12155-5 . - Volume 60 Issue 3
A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750
Margaret R. Miles. A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350–1750. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. xiii + 177 pp. index. illus. bibl. $39.95. ISBN: 978–0–520–25348–3. - Volume 61 Issue 3
European Tapestries in the Art Institute of Chicago
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation
Margaret Koster. Hugo van der Goes and the Procedures of Art and Salvation. Harvey Miller Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History 49. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2008. 178 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. 荤125. ISBN: 978–1–905375–15–8. - Volume 63 Issue 1
The Flemish Primitives VI: Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, The Bernard van Orley Group
Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500–1800
Joseph Shatzmiller. Cultural Exchange: Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
In his latest book, Joseph Shatzmiller marries economic history and art history to explore the role of the marketplace in the exchange of aesthetic values in medieval Europe. The first part of the book examines Jewish moneylenders as agents of cultural transmission who received Christian art as pawns. Chapter 1 focuses on the humblest moneylenders, chapter 2 on those whose pawns included liturgical objects, and chapter 3 on the wealthiest pawnbro…
Jan de Beer: Gothic Renewal in Renaissance Antwerp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400–1700
Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators: The History of an Allegation, 400–1700. Katherine Aron-Beller. Jewish Culture and Contexts. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024. xii + 426 pp. $79.95. - Volume 78 Issue 1
Eco-Violence, Cultural Violence, and the Almost Human in a Fifteenth-Century French Chronicle
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