John F Moffitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1100532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Moffitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Moffitt |
| SIGNATURE | MOFFITT J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
La 'Dama de Elche' tras diez años polémicos
Hace diez años, el autor de este artículo publicó en inglés un estudio monográfico sobre el famoso busto de la Dama de Elche; en seguida, su libro se tradujo al castellano. Allí se presentaron al gran público español unas treinta razones, todas distintas pero complementarias entre sí, para apoyar la novedosa tesis del autor que argüía que la tan celebrada Dama de Elche, en vez de ser un ejemplo auténtico de la plástica ibérica, la obra fechada po…
Cryptography and Alchemy in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg
O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian
Bruce G. Johnson; O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian. John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastian. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P
Ptolemy’s Chorographia in the New World: Revelations from the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España of 1579–1581
The art‐historical issue raised here concerns some forgotten formal sources for a distinctive cartographic format once commonly informing European map‐making, and the specific proposition examined here in some detail is ‘chorographic’ description. Our immediate point of departure are those maps called pinturas which accompanied the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España (Mexico) of 1579–81. Modern students of the history of cartography recogni…
"The Palestrina Mosaic with a "Nile Scene: Philostratus and Ekphrasis; Ptolemy and Chorographia
An Exemplary Humanist Hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with Reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx
In an article recently published in this journal, I argued that a certain, often discussed, hybrid encountered in Bronzino's wellknown painting depicting The Exposure of Luxury (ca. 1545, National Gallery, London; also known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time) was actually intended to represent a “sphinx” [fig. 1]. Whatever its proper designation, this is the bizarre figure that may be espied lurking in darkness (as much metaphorical as physical), …
"A Hidden Sphinx by Agnolo Bronzino, "ex tabula Cebetis Thebani
In 1568 Giorgio Vasari Described (from already dim memories) a now-famous allegorical painting that had been painted by Bronzino (Agnolo Allori) for Cosimo I de’ Medici. I). According to Vasari's recollection Bronzino had “made a picture of singular beauty” that was sent to the king of France, François I. As best as Vasari could recall, the particulars of its complicated iconographic program were all devoted to variations on an erotic theme inasm…
Painters 'Born Under Saturn: The Physiological Explanation
Art and Politics: "An Underlying Pictorial - Political Topos in Courbet's "Real Allegory
Gustave Courbet subtitled the massive painting (1855) depicting his Studio a real allegory. In practice, this puzzling conjunction of disparate terminology signifies an assemblage of symbolic figures in contemporary dress arranged into a moralized (left vs. right) compositional scheme; the entire ensemble is expressed, however, in a vigorously naturalistic painterly language. Although print-sources have been identified for major canvases by Courb…
Velázquez in the Alcázar Palace in 1656: The Meaning of the Mise‐en‐scène of Las Meninas
The Apocalyptic Vision: The Art of Franz Marc as German Expressionism
William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism
An Historical Basis for Interpreting Styles of Late 18th- to Late 20th-Century Pictorial Artworks
The author proposes a system of visual art analysis for application to pictorial artworks of the 19th and 20th century. The principles that have been commonly used to define the Archaic, Classical, Baroque and Mannerist styles of the West are reduced to outlines for quick reference, with entries for sense of form in terms of proposed principles and for presentation of content in terms of proposed philosophical conceptions. The outlines are consid…
On Pictures within Pictures
Spanish Painting
Ptolemy’s Chorographia in the New World: Revelations from the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España of 1579–1581
The art‐historical issue raised here concerns some forgotten formal sources for a distinctive cartographic format once commonly informing European map‐making, and the specific proposition examined here in some detail is ‘chorographic’ description. Our immediate point of departure are those maps called pinturas which accompanied the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España (Mexico) of 1579–81. Modern students of the history of cartography recogni…
"The Palestrina Mosaic with a "Nile Scene: Philostratus and Ekphrasis; Ptolemy and Chorographia
"A Hidden Sphinx by Agnolo Bronzino, "ex tabula Cebetis Thebani
In 1568 Giorgio Vasari Described (from already dim memories) a now-famous allegorical painting that had been painted by Bronzino (Agnolo Allori) for Cosimo I de’ Medici. I). According to Vasari's recollection Bronzino had “made a picture of singular beauty” that was sent to the king of France, François I. As best as Vasari could recall, the particulars of its complicated iconographic program were all devoted to variations on an erotic theme inasm…
Spanish Painting
An Historical Basis for Interpreting Styles of Late 18th- to Late 20th-Century Pictorial Artworks
The author proposes a system of visual art analysis for application to pictorial artworks of the 19th and 20th century. The principles that have been commonly used to define the Archaic, Classical, Baroque and Mannerist styles of the West are reduced to outlines for quick reference, with entries for sense of form in terms of proposed principles and for presentation of content in terms of proposed philosophical conceptions. The outlines are consid…
On Pictures within Pictures
The Apocalyptic Vision: The Art of Franz Marc as German Expressionism
William Holman Hunt and Typological Symbolism
Velázquez in the Alcázar Palace in 1656: The Meaning of the Mise‐en‐scène of Las Meninas
Art and Politics: "An Underlying Pictorial - Political Topos in Courbet's "Real Allegory
Gustave Courbet subtitled the massive painting (1855) depicting his Studio a real allegory. In practice, this puzzling conjunction of disparate terminology signifies an assemblage of symbolic figures in contemporary dress arranged into a moralized (left vs. right) compositional scheme; the entire ensemble is expressed, however, in a vigorously naturalistic painterly language. Although print-sources have been identified for major canvases by Courb…
Painters 'Born Under Saturn: The Physiological Explanation
"A Hidden Sphinx by Agnolo Bronzino, "ex tabula Cebetis Thebani
In 1568 Giorgio Vasari Described (from already dim memories) a now-famous allegorical painting that had been painted by Bronzino (Agnolo Allori) for Cosimo I de’ Medici. I). According to Vasari's recollection Bronzino had “made a picture of singular beauty” that was sent to the king of France, François I. As best as Vasari could recall, the particulars of its complicated iconographic program were all devoted to variations on an erotic theme inasm…
An Exemplary Humanist Hybrid: Vasari's "Fraude" with Reference to Bronzino's "Sphinx
In an article recently published in this journal, I argued that a certain, often discussed, hybrid encountered in Bronzino's wellknown painting depicting The Exposure of Luxury (ca. 1545, National Gallery, London; also known as Venus, Cupid, Folly, and Time) was actually intended to represent a “sphinx” [fig. 1]. Whatever its proper designation, this is the bizarre figure that may be espied lurking in darkness (as much metaphorical as physical), …
"The Palestrina Mosaic with a "Nile Scene: Philostratus and Ekphrasis; Ptolemy and Chorographia
O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian
Bruce G. Johnson; O Brave New People: The European Invention of the American Indian. John F. Moffitt and Santiago Sebastian. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P
Ptolemy’s Chorographia in the New World: Revelations from the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España of 1579–1581
The art‐historical issue raised here concerns some forgotten formal sources for a distinctive cartographic format once commonly informing European map‐making, and the specific proposition examined here in some detail is ‘chorographic’ description. Our immediate point of departure are those maps called pinturas which accompanied the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España (Mexico) of 1579–81. Modern students of the history of cartography recogni…
Cryptography and Alchemy in the Work of Marcel Duchamp and Walter Arensberg
La 'Dama de Elche' tras diez años polémicos
Hace diez años, el autor de este artículo publicó en inglés un estudio monográfico sobre el famoso busto de la Dama de Elche; en seguida, su libro se tradujo al castellano. Allí se presentaron al gran público español unas treinta razones, todas distintas pero complementarias entre sí, para apoyar la novedosa tesis del autor que argüía que la tan celebrada Dama de Elche, en vez de ser un ejemplo auténtico de la plástica ibérica, la obra fechada po…
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