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A Cultural History of Furniture (Volumes 1-6), 2022
Furniture is an artifact so what can it tell us about culture? What social, religious, political ... more Furniture is an artifact so what can it tell us about culture? What social, religious, political and economic factors have shaped its form and functions? How does furniture demonstrate the transformations in private and public life across time and cultures?
In a work that spans 4,500 years, 70 experts chart across six volumes the changing cultural framework within which furniture was designed, produced, and used in Western Europe. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, an... more Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home, this volume offers a distinct contribution to research on the early modern Italian domestic interior.
Though the essays mainly take an art historical approach, the book is interdisciplinary in that it considers the social implications of domestic objects for family members of different genders, age, and rank, as well as for visitors to the home. By adopting a broad chronological framework that encompasses both Renaissance and Baroque Italy, and by expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, this collection offers genuinely new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy.
Articles by Elizabeth (Liz) A Carroll
Practicing Social Justice in Libraries, (Co-Editors, Alyssa Brissett and Diana Moronta) Routledge Taylor Francis, 2023
San José State University (SJSU) Art History faculty and librarian describe their collaboration t... more San José State University (SJSU) Art History faculty and librarian describe their collaboration to create a hands-on experience for Art History students to learn green building design and sustainability on campus. In response to their students' work, they outline the curriculum changes made to increase students' attention regarding how green buildings like the SJSU library can create equity for communities in their green buildings analysis. The chapter details the process, goals, and their discoveries of students' learning needs. The authors share recommendations for other campuses interested in designing Campus as a Living Lab curriculum about green buildings in aim of teaching sustainability to their students.
L' inquadramento critico degli storici d'arte dell’inizio del XX° secolo propone che i pittori ve... more L' inquadramento critico degli storici d'arte dell’inizio del XX° secolo propone che i pittori veneziani eclissarono i contemporanei della terraferma. Da allora, gli accademici hanno aderito alla corrente di pensiero che considera i centri metropolitani regionali i luoghi di nascita e di sviluppo del "genio artistico". Di conseguenza, la genesi dei “grandi” talenti artistici ebbe origine nelle rispettive capitali: che quindi videro emergere la condizione del centro contro periferia. Contrariamente a questo luogo comune della critica del periodo, il presente saggio mette in rilievo l’importanza del filone artistico di Bartolomeo Montagna, come pure il contributo che l' artista porto' alla pittura rinascimentale veneziana e veneta. Questo studio, attraverso la rivalutazione delle influenze artistiche del Montagna, ripropone il rapporto creativo che egli ebbe con il territorio veneziano.
(Translated title "Rethinking Bartolomeo Montagna and “No Man’s Land”: Artistic Identity in Vicenza in the early 16th Century." )
in Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (edited by Michelle A Erhardt and Amy M. Morris), Dec 2012
Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographi... more Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.
Reviews/Film by Elizabeth (Liz) A Carroll
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021
In 2017 I contributed filmed interviews to the making of a short documentary on Michelangelo’s Da... more In 2017 I contributed filmed interviews to the making of a short documentary on Michelangelo’s David. Screenings were June 18th and 22nd at the Victoria Theatre (San Francisco) along with a pop-up photography exhibit of the portraits.
“When filmmaker Jeffrey Braverman comes across the Renaissance’s most iconic family jewels silkscreened into a pair of boxer briefs, he decides to explore the story of Michelangelo’s David and what this chiseled figure has to offer those of use struggling with our own modern-day Goliaths.”
Papers by Elizabeth (Liz) A Carroll
Parergon, 2014
This leads this reader to have reservations about his wisdom in including Mary Queen of Scots’s w... more This leads this reader to have reservations about his wisdom in including Mary Queen of Scots’s writings in French that surely have a very different background from the rest. Treating the Casket sonnets as authentic opens a further can of worms that surely contributes little to an analysis of the role of the French tradition in Scotland. Relating them to the work of Louise l’Abbé can only create further doubt if recent French scholarship that seeks to demonstrate that l’Abbé’s works are male creations is accepted. Calin’s whole underlying conviction, as is made clear in his conclusion, is that the French literary tradition was the most influential and pervasive in the period throughout Europe and very obviously in Scotland. Even the humanist turning back to classical texts that had been newly revised to eliminate error is given a French ambience. The implication is that ideas and forms must have a single point of generation and a clear path of transmission. As a result his amazing scholarship is unidirectional. But are the French sui generis?
The Burlington Magazine, 2011
Interviews by Elizabeth (Liz) A Carroll
A Cultural History of Furniture (Volumes 1-6), 2022
Furniture is an artifact so what can it tell us about culture? What social, religious, political ... more Furniture is an artifact so what can it tell us about culture? What social, religious, political and economic factors have shaped its form and functions? How does furniture demonstrate the transformations in private and public life across time and cultures?
In a work that spans 4,500 years, 70 experts chart across six volumes the changing cultural framework within which furniture was designed, produced, and used in Western Europe. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole and, to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, an... more Emphasizing on the one hand the reconstruction of the material culture of specific residences, and on the other, the way in which particular domestic objects reflect, shape, and mediate family values and relationships within the home, this volume offers a distinct contribution to research on the early modern Italian domestic interior.
Though the essays mainly take an art historical approach, the book is interdisciplinary in that it considers the social implications of domestic objects for family members of different genders, age, and rank, as well as for visitors to the home. By adopting a broad chronological framework that encompasses both Renaissance and Baroque Italy, and by expanding the regional scope beyond Florence and Venice to include domestic interiors from less studied centers such as Urbino, Ferrara, and Bologna, this collection offers genuinely new perspectives on the home in early modern Italy.
Practicing Social Justice in Libraries, (Co-Editors, Alyssa Brissett and Diana Moronta) Routledge Taylor Francis, 2023
San José State University (SJSU) Art History faculty and librarian describe their collaboration t... more San José State University (SJSU) Art History faculty and librarian describe their collaboration to create a hands-on experience for Art History students to learn green building design and sustainability on campus. In response to their students' work, they outline the curriculum changes made to increase students' attention regarding how green buildings like the SJSU library can create equity for communities in their green buildings analysis. The chapter details the process, goals, and their discoveries of students' learning needs. The authors share recommendations for other campuses interested in designing Campus as a Living Lab curriculum about green buildings in aim of teaching sustainability to their students.
L' inquadramento critico degli storici d'arte dell’inizio del XX° secolo propone che i pittori ve... more L' inquadramento critico degli storici d'arte dell’inizio del XX° secolo propone che i pittori veneziani eclissarono i contemporanei della terraferma. Da allora, gli accademici hanno aderito alla corrente di pensiero che considera i centri metropolitani regionali i luoghi di nascita e di sviluppo del "genio artistico". Di conseguenza, la genesi dei “grandi” talenti artistici ebbe origine nelle rispettive capitali: che quindi videro emergere la condizione del centro contro periferia. Contrariamente a questo luogo comune della critica del periodo, il presente saggio mette in rilievo l’importanza del filone artistico di Bartolomeo Montagna, come pure il contributo che l' artista porto' alla pittura rinascimentale veneziana e veneta. Questo studio, attraverso la rivalutazione delle influenze artistiche del Montagna, ripropone il rapporto creativo che egli ebbe con il territorio veneziano.
(Translated title "Rethinking Bartolomeo Montagna and “No Man’s Land”: Artistic Identity in Vicenza in the early 16th Century." )
in Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque (edited by Michelle A Erhardt and Amy M. Morris), Dec 2012
Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographi... more Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene’s character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.
Renaissance Quarterly, 2021
In 2017 I contributed filmed interviews to the making of a short documentary on Michelangelo’s Da... more In 2017 I contributed filmed interviews to the making of a short documentary on Michelangelo’s David. Screenings were June 18th and 22nd at the Victoria Theatre (San Francisco) along with a pop-up photography exhibit of the portraits.
“When filmmaker Jeffrey Braverman comes across the Renaissance’s most iconic family jewels silkscreened into a pair of boxer briefs, he decides to explore the story of Michelangelo’s David and what this chiseled figure has to offer those of use struggling with our own modern-day Goliaths.”
Parergon, 2014
This leads this reader to have reservations about his wisdom in including Mary Queen of Scots’s w... more This leads this reader to have reservations about his wisdom in including Mary Queen of Scots’s writings in French that surely have a very different background from the rest. Treating the Casket sonnets as authentic opens a further can of worms that surely contributes little to an analysis of the role of the French tradition in Scotland. Relating them to the work of Louise l’Abbé can only create further doubt if recent French scholarship that seeks to demonstrate that l’Abbé’s works are male creations is accepted. Calin’s whole underlying conviction, as is made clear in his conclusion, is that the French literary tradition was the most influential and pervasive in the period throughout Europe and very obviously in Scotland. Even the humanist turning back to classical texts that had been newly revised to eliminate error is given a French ambience. The implication is that ideas and forms must have a single point of generation and a clear path of transmission. As a result his amazing scholarship is unidirectional. But are the French sui generis?
The Burlington Magazine, 2011