Chriscinda Henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 6458636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chriscinda Henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chriscinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1222-2220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poetic matters
Historians of Renaissance art have long been familiar with Giovanni Aurelio Augurello’s interest in painting and sculpture, while historians of alchemy are aware of his lifelong dedication to the gold-making art immortalized in his masterpiece, Chrysopoeia (1515). Yet the problem of how these interests intersect in the poet’s work has either been disregarded or framed within outdated categories such as occultism and hermeticism. In a dialogue wit…
Cranston, Jodi. Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
Loh, Maria H. Titian’s Touch
From beggar to virtuoso
This essay surveys the iconography of street singers and musicians in sixteenth‐century Netherlandish painting. It examines the visual and social status of itinerant performers as they move between different roles in the urban marketplace: from sympathetic beggar deserving of charity to diabolical trickster and charlatan, to successful entrepreneur operating within a new market system. The representation of this marginal type extends from grotesq…
Alter Orpheus
The visual persona of the itinerant street singer who sang ballads and tales, reported the news, and prophesized future events in the markets and public squares of Renaissance Europe proves an elusive subject for the art historian. This is especially true in Italy for the period prior to the advent of the Commedia dell’arte. Before the late sixteenth century, the primary visual sources that purport to record the appearance of cantastorie, whether…
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Alter Orpheus
The visual persona of the itinerant street singer who sang ballads and tales, reported the news, and prophesized future events in the markets and public squares of Renaissance Europe proves an elusive subject for the art historian. This is especially true in Italy for the period prior to the advent of the Commedia dell’arte. Before the late sixteenth century, the primary visual sources that purport to record the appearance of cantastorie, whether…
From beggar to virtuoso
This essay surveys the iconography of street singers and musicians in sixteenth‐century Netherlandish painting. It examines the visual and social status of itinerant performers as they move between different roles in the urban marketplace: from sympathetic beggar deserving of charity to diabolical trickster and charlatan, to successful entrepreneur operating within a new market system. The representation of this marginal type extends from grotesq…
Loh, Maria H. Titian’s Touch
Cranston, Jodi. Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
Poetic matters
Historians of Renaissance art have long been familiar with Giovanni Aurelio Augurello’s interest in painting and sculpture, while historians of alchemy are aware of his lifelong dedication to the gold-making art immortalized in his masterpiece, Chrysopoeia (1515). Yet the problem of how these interests intersect in the poet’s work has either been disregarded or framed within outdated categories such as occultism and hermeticism. In a dialogue wit…
Art (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Painting (3 works) · Financial Crisis of the 21st Century (2 works) · Historical Influence and Diplomacy (2 works) · Iconography (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Portrait (2 works)