Helen Hills
Biographic Data
| ID | 5715629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helen Hills |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helen |
| FAMILY NAME | Hills |
| SIGNATURE | HILLS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Blind Spots
This essay examines the visual culture of what might be termed “the ecology of silver” between 1492 and 1710 in relation to colonialism on both sides of the Atlantic, with particular attention to both its shiny allure and the blind spots that that shininess produces. It focuses on three inter-related areas: depictions of Potosí, the great silver mountain in viceregal Peru; silver’s shine in European elite material culture; and the deployment of s…
Those who flee and those who see
Louis Marin sees the aesthetic realm as engendering power through its effects. The chiasmic intersplicing of allegorical text and image on a medal divides and arrests the spectator in the king-effect. It is real in the sense you can touch it and it is imaginary in that it reveals ‘baroque' desire, the fantastic desire of absolute power. This paper explores the other side – fragile, material, and gendered – of Marin's world to examine not so much …
All that Glitters Is Not Gold
Colonial Materiality
Embedded in power relations, coloniality, and matters of purification, early modern silver was a particularly generative site. Might its peculiar paradoxes be usefully thought in terms of a materiality of trauma
What to Wear for Flirting in the Street
Conceptions and reworkings of baroque and neobaroque in recent years
Baroque needs to be thought across chronological and geographical divides to connect architecture and dance, painting and natural science, philosophy, sculpture and music (and not in the sense of representations of music) and, above all, in relation to encounters with difference - heavenly, earthly, social, political, religious, geographical. What possibilities in baroque are open now in relation to present dilemmas in art history and world event…
Feminism and Visual Culture
Subject Matters in Early Modern Art
Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art edited by Alexander Nagel and Lorenzo, Pericolo, Burlington, VT and Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, 257 pp., 97 b. & w. illus., £65.00 This is a fascinating and important book, which introduces to a general public stimulating new ways of thinking about indeterminacy and the concept of the subject in early modern art, particularly painting. Derived from a conference session on ‘Subject as Aporia’ held at the Renaissan…
Becoming Neapolitan
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Urbanism in Siena
The Face Is a Mirror of the Soul’
This article investigates frontispiece images of saints, including portraits of would‐be saints, published in saints' and would‐be‐saints' Vite in post‐Tridentine Naples. It argues that these images, together with their accompanying texts, form part of the manufacturing of the new faces of sanctity of Catholic Reform, with specifically local (Neapolitan) overtones. Frontispiece images of saints operated less as passive adornment of the lives they…
Too Much Propaganda
Evonne Levy: Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2004), 353 pp., 109 illns, hardback ISBN 0-520-23357-3, $55.00, £35.95. This book considers Jesuit architecture through the lens of ‘propaganda’ and vice versa. Fascinated by apparent connections between Nazi propaganda and Jesuit architecture, Levy asks whether we might usefully think of early modern Jesuit architecture in terms of propaganda. Conversel…
Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
Contents: Introduction: Theorizing the relationships between architecture and gender in early modern Europe, Helen Hills Production: architects and patrons: A noble residence for a female regent: Margaret of Austria and the construction of the 'Court of Savoy' in Mechelen, Dagmar Eichberger The Val-de-GrA ce as a portrait of Anne of Austria: Queen, Queen Regent, Queen Mother, Jennifer G. Germann The architecture of institutionalism: women's space…
Balsdon Fellowships
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Enamelled with the Blood of a Noble Lineage
The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by scholarship of early modern Italy, which has shown the degree to which these fields necessarily overlapped. Nevertheless, studies of early modern female devotion, especially within convents, often present women as caught between competing claims of kinship and clerical authority, a conflict between family and convent, an opposition between the secular an…
Searching for Neutrality in Maps and Pl4Taforail4S
REVIEW ARTICLE SEARCHING FOR NEUTRALITY IN MAPS AND PL4TAFORAIL4S HELEN HILLS University of Manchester Kagan, Richard, with the collaboration of Fernando Marias, Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), x + 236 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 300 08314 9. This book forms part of the renewed interest in recent years in maps and city views. Its subject is rich and wonderful: urban representations produc…
Searching for Neutrality in Maps and Plataformas
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Velázquez
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Mapping the early modern city
This paper analyses in their political context the festival decorations created by Paolo Amato, architect to the Senate of Palermo, in 1686 for the festival of the patron saint of that city. One of these decorations, that of the main altar in the cathedral, is of particular interest in that it represents a map of the city itself. An analysis of this map in relation to other seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century maps of Palermo reveals its pol…
The Age of the Baroque in Portugal, National Gallery of Art, Washington. 7 November 1993-6 February 1994
Mapping the early modern city
This paper analyses in their political context the festival decorations created by Paolo Amato, architect to the Senate of Palermo, in 1686 for the festival of the patron saint of that city. One of these decorations, that of the main altar in the cathedral, is of particular interest in that it represents a map of the city itself. An analysis of this map in relation to other seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century maps of Palermo reveals its pol…
The Age of the Baroque in Portugal, National Gallery of Art, Washington. 7 November 1993-6 February 1994
Mapping the early modern city
This paper analyses in their political context the festival decorations created by Paolo Amato, architect to the Senate of Palermo, in 1686 for the festival of the patron saint of that city. One of these decorations, that of the main altar in the cathedral, is of particular interest in that it represents a map of the city itself. An analysis of this map in relation to other seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century maps of Palermo reveals its pol…
Velázquez
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
Searching for Neutrality in Maps and Pl4Taforail4S
REVIEW ARTICLE SEARCHING FOR NEUTRALITY IN MAPS AND PL4TAFORAIL4S HELEN HILLS University of Manchester Kagan, Richard, with the collaboration of Fernando Marias, Urban Images of the Hispanic World, 1493-1793 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000), x + 236 pp., £35.00, ISBN 0 300 08314 9. This book forms part of the renewed interest in recent years in maps and city views. Its subject is rich and wonderful: urban representations produc…
Searching for Neutrality in Maps and Plataformas
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Balsdon Fellowships
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
Enamelled with the Blood of a Noble Lineage
The stark antithesis between the secular and the religious has been effectively challenged by scholarship of early modern Italy, which has shown the degree to which these fields necessarily overlapped. Nevertheless, studies of early modern female devotion, especially within convents, often present women as caught between competing claims of kinship and clerical authority, a conflict between family and convent, an opposition between the secular an…
Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe
Contents: Introduction: Theorizing the relationships between architecture and gender in early modern Europe, Helen Hills Production: architects and patrons: A noble residence for a female regent: Margaret of Austria and the construction of the 'Court of Savoy' in Mechelen, Dagmar Eichberger The Val-de-GrA ce as a portrait of Anne of Austria: Queen, Queen Regent, Queen Mother, Jennifer G. Germann The architecture of institutionalism: women's space…
Too Much Propaganda
Evonne Levy: Propaganda and the Jesuit Baroque (University of California Press: Berkeley, CA, 2004), 353 pp., 109 illns, hardback ISBN 0-520-23357-3, $55.00, £35.95. This book considers Jesuit architecture through the lens of ‘propaganda’ and vice versa. Fascinated by apparent connections between Nazi propaganda and Jesuit architecture, Levy asks whether we might usefully think of early modern Jesuit architecture in terms of propaganda. Conversel…
The Face Is a Mirror of the Soul’
This article investigates frontispiece images of saints, including portraits of would‐be saints, published in saints' and would‐be‐saints' Vite in post‐Tridentine Naples. It argues that these images, together with their accompanying texts, form part of the manufacturing of the new faces of sanctity of Catholic Reform, with specifically local (Neapolitan) overtones. Frontispiece images of saints operated less as passive adornment of the lives they…
Urbanism in Siena
Becoming Neapolitan
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
Feminism and Visual Culture
Subject Matters in Early Modern Art
Subject as Aporia in Early Modern Art edited by Alexander Nagel and Lorenzo, Pericolo, Burlington, VT and Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, 257 pp., 97 b. & w. illus., £65.00 This is a fascinating and important book, which introduces to a general public stimulating new ways of thinking about indeterminacy and the concept of the subject in early modern art, particularly painting. Derived from a conference session on ‘Subject as Aporia’ held at the Renaissan…
Conceptions and reworkings of baroque and neobaroque in recent years
Baroque needs to be thought across chronological and geographical divides to connect architecture and dance, painting and natural science, philosophy, sculpture and music (and not in the sense of representations of music) and, above all, in relation to encounters with difference - heavenly, earthly, social, political, religious, geographical. What possibilities in baroque are open now in relation to present dilemmas in art history and world event…
What to Wear for Flirting in the Street
Colonial Materiality
Embedded in power relations, coloniality, and matters of purification, early modern silver was a particularly generative site. Might its peculiar paradoxes be usefully thought in terms of a materiality of trauma
All that Glitters Is Not Gold
Those who flee and those who see
Louis Marin sees the aesthetic realm as engendering power through its effects. The chiasmic intersplicing of allegorical text and image on a medal divides and arrests the spectator in the king-effect. It is real in the sense you can touch it and it is imaginary in that it reveals ‘baroque' desire, the fantastic desire of absolute power. This paper explores the other side – fragile, material, and gendered – of Marin's world to examine not so much …
Blind Spots
This essay examines the visual culture of what might be termed “the ecology of silver” between 1492 and 1710 in relation to colonialism on both sides of the Atlantic, with particular attention to both its shiny allure and the blind spots that that shininess produces. It focuses on three inter-related areas: depictions of Potosí, the great silver mountain in viceregal Peru; silver’s shine in European elite material culture; and the deployment of s…
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