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Review of "Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe"
Renaissance Quarterly
  • Michael D. Bailey, Iowa State University
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
1-1-2012
DOI
10.1086/668355
Abstract

What I admire most about Marcia Hall’s studies of late Cinquecento Italian painting is her straightforward way of relating specific aspects of style, especially color, to the religious and affective goals of a period that needs all the clarity it can get. In this important new study she considers how artists from Rome to Toledo brought the sacred back to sacred art in the aftermath of the Reformation and Council of Trent. Individually they “revolutionized Renaissance painting and laid the groundwork for the modern age” (5), collectively one of the most original attempts to create a new religious art in seven centuries.

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This article is published as Craig Koslofsky, Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe, reviewed in Renaissance Quarterly 65 (2012): 946-48. DOI: 10.1086/668355. Posted with permission.

Copyright Owner
Cambridge University Press
Language
en
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application/pdf
Citation Information
Michael D. Bailey. "Review of "Evening’s Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe"" Renaissance Quarterly Vol. 65 (2012) p. 946 - 948
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michael_bailey/64/