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Volume 28
Copyright 2007
ISSN 0148-1029

Articles: Dorothy Glass, “‘Quo vadis’: The Study of Italian Romanesque Sculpture at the Beginning of the Third Millennium”; Laura E. Cochrane, “‘The Wine in the Vines and the Foliage in the Roots’: Representations of David in the Durham Cassiodorus”; Richard K. Emmerson, “A ‘Large Order of the Whole’: Intertextuality and Interpictoriality in the Hours of Isabella Stuart”; Charles S. Buchanan, “An Illustrated Romanesque Hagiographic Lectionary (Lucca: Biblioteca Capitolare, Passionario C): Inspiration, Formulation, and Reception”; Karl Fugelso, “Defining the State in Commedia Miniatures: Pictorial Responses to Dante’s Condemnation of Florence”; Penny Howell Jolly, “Rogier van der Weyden’s ‘Pregnant’ Magdalene: On the Rhetoric of Dress in the Descent from the Cross.”

Reviews by Karen Blough, Anne-Marie Bouche, Madeline H. Caviness, Michael Curschmann, William J. Diebold, Elizabeth S. Hudson, Judith Oliver, and Brent A. Pitts.


Volume 27
Copyright 2006
ISSN 0148-1029
ISBN 978-1-58044-104-9

Articles: Elina Gertsman, "Pleyinge and Peyntynge: Performing the Dance of Death"; Mati Meyer, "The Levite's Concubine: Imaging the Marginal Woman in Byzantine Society"; Phillip Jeffrey Guilbeau, "Iuxta Iter Scandalum: The 'Wayside Stumbling Block' in Late Medieval Passion Imagery"; Anne Leader, "Michelangelo's Last Judgment: The Culmination of Papal Propaganda in the Sistine Chapel"; Troy Thomas, "An Augustinian Interpretation of Caravaggio's Calling of St. Matthew"

Reviews by Magdalena Carracsco, Kate Dimitrova, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Pamela A. Patton, Elizabeth Peterson, Pamela Sheingorn, Anne Rudloff Stanton, and Karla Taylor.


Volume 26
Copyright 2005
ISBN 1-58044-094-0

Articles: Marian Bleeke, "Sheelas, Sex, and Significance in Romanesque Sculpture: The Kilpeck Corbel Series"; Giovanni Freni, "Visual Hagiography and Its Context: The Narrative of the Shrine of San Donato"; Paul H. D. Kaplan, "The Paliotto of the Corpus Domini: A Eucharistic Sculpture for a Venitian Nunnery"; William R. Levin, "'Tanto goffe e mal fatte . . . dette figure si facessino . . . belle': The Trecento Overdoor Sculptures for the Baptistry in Florence and Their Cinquecento Replacements"; Sarit Shalev Eyni, "Iconography of Love: Illustrations of Bride and Bridegroom in Ashkenazi Prayerbooks of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century"; Barbara Weissberger, "Patronage and Politics in the Court of the Catholic Monarchs: The Cancionero de Pedro Marcuello."

Reviews by Susan L'Engle, Elizabeth Key Fowden, Kristine Haney, Colum Hourihane, Dorothy Kelly, Victor I. Scherb, and Gertrud J. M. van Loon.


Volume 25
Copyright 2004
ISBN 1-58044-085-1

Articles: Mark Cruse, Gabriella Parussa, and Isabelle Ragnard, "The Aix Jeu de Robin et Marion: Image, Text, Music"; Mary D. Edwards, "Duccio's Entry into Jerusalem: A New Interpretation"; Katrin Kogman-Appel and Shulamit Laderman, "The Sarajevo Haggadah: The Concept of Creatio ex nihilo and the Hermeneutical School Behind It"; Barbara Abou-El-Haj, "The Structure of Meaning: Architectural Representations in the Later Middle Ages"; Barnaby Nygren, "Immersed in Things of the Body: Humor and Meaning in an Annunciation by Filippo Lippi"; Sarah Stanbury, "The Clock in Filippino Lippi's Annunciation Tondo"; Bronwen Wilson, "Reproducing the Contours of Venetian Identity in Sixteenth-Century Costume Books"

Reviews by John V. Fleming, Rachel Dressler, Mat Immerzeel, A. E. Wright, Karen Gould, Martine Meuwese, Benjamin C. Withers, Kenneth Pennington, and Michael Curschmann

Indexes to Volumes 1-25 by Author and by Reviewer


Volume 24
Copyright 2003
ISBN 1-58044-049-5

Articles: David S. Areford, "Introduction: Toward an Archaeology of the Early Printed Image"; David S. Areford, "The Image in the Viewer's Hands: The Reception of Early Prints in Europe"; Peter Schmidt, "The Use of Prints in German Convents of the Fifteenth Century: The Example of Nuremberg"; Richard S. Field, "A Fifteenth-Century Woodcut of the Death of the Virgin in a Manuscript of Der Stachel der Liebe"; Wendy R. Larson, "Narrative Threads: The Pienza Cope's Embroidered Vitae and Their Ritual Setting"; Leslie C. Jones and Jonathan J. G. Alexander, "The Annunciation to the Shepherdess"; Laura Weigert, "Velum Templi: Painted Cloths of the Passion and the Making of Lenten Ritual in Reims"

Reviews by Hans Brandhorst, Judith Berg Sobré, William J. Diebold, Sarah Blake McHam, Sherry L. Reames, Christina Maranci, Lynn Ransom, and Adelaide Bennett.


Volume 23
Copyright 2002
ISBN 1-58044-039-8

Articles: Gerald B. Guest, "The People Demand a King: Visualizing Monarchy in the Psalter of Louis IX"; Antonia Holden, "The Cultivation of Upper-Class Otium: Two Aquileian 'Oratory' Pavements Reconsidered"; Virginia Blanton-Whetsell, "Imagines Ætheldredae: Mapping Hagiographic Representations of Abbatial Power and Religious Patronage"; Cristelle L. Baskins, "(In)Famous Men: The Continence of Scipio and Formations of Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Domestic Painting"; Véronique Plesch, "Not Only Against Jews: Antisemitic Iconography and Its Functions at La Brigue"; Babette Bohn, "Esther as a Model for Female Autonomy in Northern Italian Art."

Reviews by Ynez Violé O'Neill, Patrick J. Geary, Carol Neuman de Vegvar, Anne Hagopian van Buren, Judith H. Oliver, Gerald B. Guest, Dorothy F. Glass, and Christine Kondoleon.


Volume 22
Copyright 2001
ISBN 1-58044-032-0

Articles: James J. Paxson, "(Re)facing Prosopopeia and Allegory in Contemporary Theory and Iconography"; Joyce Kubiski, "The Medieval 'Home Office': Evangelist Portraits in the Mount Athos Gospel Book, Stavronikita Monastery, MS 43"; Rhonda Knight, "Werewolves, Monsters, and Miracles: Representing Colonial Fantasies in Gerald of Wales's Topographia Hibernica"; Felicity Ratté, "Re-presenting the Common Place: Architectural Portraits in Trecento Painting"; Darrell Davisson, "Magian Ars Medica, Liturgical Devices, and Eastern Influences in the Medici Palace Chapel"; Kathryn M. Rudy, "A Pilgrim's Book of Hours: Addendum."

Reviews by Marina Vidas, Katherine L. Jansen, Mildred Budny, Kirk Ambrose, Suzanne Lewis, Archim Timmermann, and Marla Carlson.


Volume 21
Copyright 2000
ISBN 1-58044-054-1

Articles: Michael Curschmann, "Marcolf or Aesop? The Question of Identity in Visio-Verbal Contexts"; Magdalena Elizabeth Carrasco, "The Construction of Sanctity: Pictorial Hagiography and Monastic Reform in the First Illustrated Life of St. Cuthbert"; Rachel Dressler, "Cross-legged Knights and Signification in English Medieval Tomb Sculpture"; Lorraine Kochanske Stock, "Froissart's Chroniques and Its Illustrators: Historicity and Ficticity in the Verbal and Visual Imaging of Charles VI's Bal des Ardents"; Linda A Koch, "The Altar-Shrine of Santa Fina: Local Sainthood and Church Authority in Quattrocentro San Gimignano"; Kathryn M. Rudy, "A Pilgrim's Book of Hours: Stockholm Royal Library A233."

Reviews by William Cook, Melanie Holcomb, Lucy Freeman Sandler, Hans J. Van Miegroet, Bronwen Wilson, and Diane Wolfthal.


Volume 20
Copyright 1999
ISBN 1-58044-019-3

Articles: Paul Binski, "The English Parish Church and Its Art in the Later Middle Ages: A Review of the Problem"; Nina Chichinadze, "The True Cross Reliquaries of Medieval Georgia"; Pamela A. Patton, "The Capitals of San Juan de la Pena: Narrative Sequence and Monastic Spirituality in the Romanesque Cloister"; Catherine Brown Tkacz, "Susanna as Type of Christ"; Ronald B. Herzman, "'Visibile Parlare': Dante's Purgatorio 10 and Luca Signorelli's San Brizio Frescoes"; Yona Pinson, "Folly and Vanity in Bruegel's Dulle Griet: Proverbial Metaphors and Their Relationship to Bosch's Imagery."

Reviews of works by Anne Derbes, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Henry Maguire, Jill M. Ricketts, Lucy Freeman Sandler, James M. Saslow, Evelyn S. Welch.


Volume 19
Copyright 1998
ISBN 1-58044-003-7

Articles: Benjamin David, "Pope-Hennessy, Derrida, and 'Literary Residue' in Visual Images: The Case of Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece"; John B. Wickstrom, "Gregory the Great's 'Life of St. Benedict' and the Illustrations of Abbot Desiderius II"; Meredith Parsons Lillich, "St. Memmie, Apostle of Chalons, and Other Bishop Saints in the Gothic Windows of Chalons Cathedral"; Beth Williamson, "The Virgin Lactans as Second Eve: Image of the Salvatrix"; James J. Paxson, "The Nether-Faced Devil and the Allegory of Partruition"; Lee Anne Wilson, "Survival, Resistance, and Acculturation: Guaman Poma's Use of Costume and Textile Imagery."

Review Essay by Leslie Abend Callahan.  Reviews of works by Huston Deihl, Claire Farago, Michael Koortbojian, Irving Lavin, Suzanne Lewis, and Ellen D. Reeder.


Volume 18
Copyright 1997
ISBN 1-879288-93-1

Articles: Lucy Freeman Sandler, "The Study of Marginal Imagery: Past, Present, and Future"; Jonathan J. G. Alexander, "Art History, Literary History, and the Study of Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts"; Joan A. Holladay, "Relics, Reliquaries, and Religious Women: Visualizing the Holy Virgins of Cologne"; Paul F. Reichardt, "'Several Illuminations, Coarsely Executed': The Illustrations of the Pearl Manuscript";  Yael Even, "Daphne (Without Apollo) Reconsidered: Some Disregarded Images of Sexual Pursuit in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art"; Judith W. Mann, "Caravaggio and Artemisia: Testing the Limits of Caravaggism"; Mason Tung, "From Theory to Practice: A Study of the Theoretical Bases of Peacham's Emblamatic Art."

Reviews of works by Marilynn Desmond, Elaine Fantham et al., Mary Weitzel Gibbons, Edwin Hall, Christine Kondoleon, Jonathan B. Riess, Gerard Rooijakkers et al., Claire Richter Sherman, Martin Stevens and Daniel Woodward, Marilyn E. Heldman et al., Eleanor Simmons, and two exhibition catalogues.


Volume 17
Copyright 1996
ISBN 1-879288-61-3

Articles: Lois Drewer, "Recent Approaches to Early Christian and Byzantine Iconography"; Karl Sandin, "Salvation, Correctness, and Healing: Aspects of the Reception of a Sixth-Century Jonah Pyxis in St. Petersburg"; Kathleen Nolan, "'Ploratus et Ululatus': The Mothers in the Massacre of the Innocents at Chartres Cathedral"; Sharon Farmer, "Feminine Folly, Burgher Calculation, and Anti-Communal Rhetoric in Thirteenth-Century Tours"; Anne Rudloff Stanton, "La Genealogye Comence: Kinship and Difference in the Queen Mary Psalter"; William R. Levin, "Advertising Charity in the Trecento: The Public Decorations of the Misericordia in Florence"; Nell Gifford Martin, "Vision and Violence in Some Gothic Meditative Imagery"; Martha W. Driver, "The Illustrated de Worde: An Overview."

Reviews of works by Mieke Bal and Inge E. Boer, Jane Chance, Kathleen Corrigan, Sandra Hindman, Marcia A. Kupfer, Keith Moxey, Ann Eljenholm Nichols, Roelef van Straten.


Volume 16
Copyright 1994
ISBN 1-879288-58-3

Articles: Cristelle L. Baskins, "Gender Trouble in Italian Renaissance Art History: Two Case Studies"; Genevra Kornluth, "Susanna and Saint Eligius: Romanesque Reception of a Carolingian Jewel"; John B. Wickstrom, "Text and Image in the Making of a Holy Man: An Illustrated Life of Saint Maurus of Glanfeuil (MS Vat. Lat. 1202)"; Martha Easton, "Saint Agatha and the Sanctification of Sexual Violence"; Leslie Abend Callahan, "The Torture of Saint Apollonia: Deconstructing Fouquet’s Martyrdom Stage"; Peter F. Lynch, "Narratives of Marginalization: De-Centering Women in Tuscan Domestic Painting ca. 1500"; Brian D. Steele, "The Humblest Prophet: The Infant Baptist in Venice ca. 1500"; and Anne Reynolds, "Ambiguities of Appollo and Marsyas: Francesco Berni and His First Published Work, Dialogo Contra I Poeti."

Reviews of works by Jonathan J. G. Alexander, Brendan Cassidy, Sylvia Huot, Thomas F. Matthews, and Ruth Mellinkoff.


Volume 15
Copyright 1993
ISBN 1-879288-44-3

Articles: Jonathan J.G. Alexander, "Iconography and Ideology: Uncovering Social Meanings in Western Medieval Christian Art"; Nancy B. Black, "The Language of the Illustrations of Chrétien de Troyes’s Le Chevalier au Lion (Yvain)"; Vida J. Hull, "The Sex of the Savior in Renaissance Art: The Revelations of Saint Bridget and the Nude Christ Child in Renaissance Art"; Cristelle L. Baskins, "Donatello’s Bronze David: Grillanda, Goliath, Groom?"; Liana De Girolami Cheney, "Vasari’s Pictorial Musing on the Muse: The Chamber of Apollo of the Casa Vasari"; Karen Pinkus, "Philology and Emblems: A Murder Case"; Gary M. Bouchard, "’Stayed Steps’: Colin Clout’s Slow Hastening into Riper Years"; Renee Hannaford Ramsey, "The Poet as Art Critic: Identity and Representation in Marvell’s ’The Gallery’"; Christiane Hertel, "Disruption and Entanglement: Maenadism in William Holman Hunt’s The Lady of Shalott and Max Klinger’s Temptation."

Reviews of works by Brendan Cassidy, Michael Camille, William M. Voelkle and Roger S. Wieck.


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