Renaissance Papers 2022 - 9781640141643

Jim Pearce

Renaissance Papers 2022Author(s): Jim Pearce, Ward J. Risvold, William Given, Julie Fox-Horton, Lorenz A Hindrichsen, Heather Hirschfeld, Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, Jesse B. Russell, Victor Velzquez, John N Wall\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United States\nImprint: Camden House Inc\nISBN-13: 9781640141643, 978-1640141643\nSynopsis\nRenaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is \""sacred places, secular spaces.\"" It begins with a \""who is it\"" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and the profane, respectively. The next essay engages both the sacred and pictorial innovationsin Holbein's predella The Dead Christ; while the following one views the sacred through the critical lens of race, arguing that Northern European churchmen normalized views on race by strategically placing racialized artifacts in their churches. The scene then.