early culture center gift
Book launch presentation by
Timothy McCall, Villanova University
“McColl assembles a wonderful trove of visual and literary material, looks beneath the civilized glow of heroic Renaissance figures, and explores a world dominated by toxic conflicts, strained marital alliances, and lavish materials.” The screen reveals the brutality of daily life for the aristocracy, an unstable and often violent world: ill-behaved lords, knights in shining armor, clever young brides and mistresses, scheming parents and patrons, and full of gossip about the discreet artists they commissioned to project, consolidate, and normalize extreme power and privilege, bringing to life the multisensory world of an Italian Renaissance court that makes a Renaissance man. — Maria H. Roe, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, author of The Titian Touch.
Humanities Gateway 1030
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
1pm Luncheon
Please RSVP here to join us for lunch by Monday, January 22nd
Timothy McCall is a professor of art history and director of the art history program at Villanova University. His research focuses on the history of fashion and material culture, as well as the Italian Renaissance court and the broader visual intersections of power and gender (particularly masculinity). McCall co-edited The Secret Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe (2013), for which he received a one-year fellowship from Villa i Tatti and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2022, he published Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy by Pennsylvania State University Press. He is currently co-editing (with Catherine Kovesi) the six-volume Cultural History of Bloomsbury. A short book, co-authored with John Gagné, “Vivid Banners: The Material Culture of Combat Standards in Renaissance Europe,” will be published in Cambridge University Press’ “Elements of the Renaissance” series in 2024. Upcoming projects include “The Problem of Renaissance Fashion” and “All Consuming War,” co-authored with Gagné and Emanuele Legris.
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Art History, Department of Visual Studies, Department of European Linguistics, and Department of Gender and Sexuality.
Humanities Gateway, RM. 1030