Renaissance Society of America Virtual Exhibit
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The Aquatic Metropolis
Urban Design and Environmental Change in Tenochtitlan-Mexico City
John F. López
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The Brothel and Beyond
An Urban History of the Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice
Saundra Weddle
Spontaneous Objects
A Natural History of Art and Its Others
Rebecca Zorach
Cervantine Blackness
Nicholas R. Jones
Doctrine and Disease in the British and Spanish Colonial World
Kathleen Miller
Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza
The Politics of an Anglo-Spanish Life
Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez
Bernardino Ochino’s Exile and the Composition of an International Reformation
Andrea Beth Wenz
African Venice
A Guide to Art, Culture and People
Paul Kaplan and Shaul Bassi, Foreword by Igiaba Scego, and Afterword by Maaza Mengiste
Lies of the Land
Painted Maps in Late Medieval and Early Modern France
Camille Serchuk
Animal Sightings
Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400–1550
Jodi Cranston
Opacity
Blackness and the Art of the Dutch Republic
Angela Vanhaelen
Envisioning Diplomacy
Japanese Ambassadors in Early Modern Europe
Mayu Fujikawa
Ribera’s Repetitions
Paper and Canvas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Naples
Todd P. Olson
Iridescence and the Image
Material Thinking in the Early Modern Spanish World
Brendan C. McMahon
Facing Decay
Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe
Erin Griffey
The Criminal Case of Juana Aguilar
Adjudicating Gender in Colonial Central America
Sylvia Sellers-García
Beware the Poetry
Political Satire and the Emergence of a Public Sphere in Madrid, 1595–1643
Javier Castro-Ibaseta
The Magic of Rogues
Necromancers in Early Tudor England
Frank Klaassen and Sharon Hubbs Wright
Speculum Lapidum
A Renaissance Treatise on the Healing Properties of Gemstones
Camillo Leonardi, and Translated with an introduction by Liliana Leopardi
Everyday Magicians
Legal Records and Magic Manuscripts from Tudor England
Sharon Hubbs Wright and Frank Klaassen
Brilliant Bodies
Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy
Timothy McCall
Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer
An Intervention
Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell, Cynthia S. Colburn, and Ella J. Gonzalez
The Mineral and the Visual
Precious Stones in Medieval Secular Culture
Brigitte Buettner
Village Infernos and Witches’ Advocates
Witch-Hunting in Navarre, 1608–1614
Lu Ann Homza
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
Cécile Fromont
An Artful Relic
The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy
Andrew R. Casper
Pandemic in Potosí
Fear, Loathing, and Public Piety in a Colonial Mining Metropolis
Kris Lane
A New Antiquity
Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400–1600
Alessandra Russo
The Child Witches of Olague
Lu Ann Homza
Praying to Portraits
Audience, Identity, and the Inquisition in the Early Modern Hispanic World
Adam Jasienski
Disenchanting Albert the Great
The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Magician
David J. Collins, S. J.
Sodomites, Pederasts, and Tribades in Eighteenth-Century France
A Documentary History
Edited by Jeffrey Merrick
Isfahan
Architecture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Iran
Farshid Emami
The Man Who Broke Michelangelo’s Nose
Felipe Pereda
Pearls for the Crown
Art, Nature, and Race in the Age of Spanish Expansion
Mónica Domínguez Torres
Living with Sculpture
Presence and Power in Europe, 1400-1750
Elizabeth Rice Mattison and Ashley B. Offill
Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical Image
Rose Marie San Juan
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance
Volume 1, Insects
Edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana
Lesser Living Creatures of the Renaissance
Volume 2, Concepts
Edited by Keith Botelho and Joseph Campana
The Four Shakespeare Folios, 1623–2023
Copy, Print, Paper, Type
Edited by Samuel V. Lemley
Illuminating the Vitae patrum
The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy
Denva Gallant
The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha
Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century
A. Katie Harris
Actors Carved and Cast
Netherlandish Sculpture of the Sixteenth Century
Ethan Matt Kavaler
Sacred Habitat
Nature and Catholicism in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic
Ran Segev
Shortage and Famine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon
Adam Franklin-Lyons
The Letter from Prison
Literature of Cultural Resistance in Early Modern England
W. Clark Gilpin
Atlantic Crossroads in Lisbon’s New Golden Age, 1668–1750
Cacey Bowen Farnsworth
Rival Wisdoms
Reading Proverbs in the Canterbury Tales
Nancy Mason Bradbury
Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Archival Voices from 1785
Edited by Jeffrey Merrick
Environment, Society, and The Compleat Angler
Marjorie Swann
An Irish Rebel in New Spain
The Tumultuous Life and Tragic Death of William Lamport
Andrea Martínez Baracs and Translated By Hank Heifetz
Murder and Madness on Trial
A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna
Mònica Calabritto
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