Visual cultures of secrecy in early modern Europe

Abstract

The visual dynamics of (un)veiling in early modern culture /Patricia Simons --On the skins of goats and sheep: (un)masking the secrets of nature in early modern popular culture /William Eamon --Secrecy and the production of seignorial space: the Coretto of Torrechiara /Timothy McCall --Michelangelo's open secrets /Maria Ruvoldt --Hebrew, hieroglyphs, and the secrets of divine wisdom in Ludovico Mazzolino's devotional paintings /Giancarlo Fiorenza --A secret space for a secret keeper: Cardinal Bibbiena at the Vatican Palace /Henry Dietrich Fernández --Networks of urban secrecy: tamburi, anonymous denunciations, and the production of the gaze in fifteenth-century Florence /Allie Terry-Fritsch --Tricks of the trade: the technical secrets of early engraving /Sean Roberts --The alchemical womb: Johann Remmelin's Catoptrum microcosmicum /Lyle Massey.