The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe

by Katherine Baker, Emma Solberg, Elizabeth Morrison, et al.

A fascinating exploration of the visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe

We often imagine the Renaissance as an age of exceptional human progress and artistic achievement. But, intriguingly, macabre images proliferated in precisely this period: unsettling depictions of Death personified, of decaying bodies, of young lovers struck down in their prime. These morbid themes run riot in the remarkable array of artworks featured...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300225954
• ISBN13: 9780300225952
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Bowdoin
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 10.5"