List of Illustrations
Foreword
John A. Bross
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Off the Axis: The Renaissance without Vasari
Working with—and without—Vasari’s Lives
Court Centers as World Cities
What Was Italy?
Models for Renaissance Cultural Geography: Dialect Pluralism versus Literary Canons
2 Place, Event, and the Geopolitics of Art
Place in Relational Geography
Place as Event and Performance in an Altarpiece by Lorenzo Lotto
Regionalism and Its Discontents
3 The View from Messina: Lombards, Sicilians, and the Modern Manner
The Questione Meridionale in the History of Art
A Southern Renaissance without Vasari
Cesare da Sesto: Raffaelesco or Anti-Raphael?
Polidoro da Caravaggio’s Radical Late Style
4 Distant Cities: Lorenzo Lotto and Gaudenzio Ferrari
Lorenzo Lotto: An Artist “Out of Place”
Lotto and Gaudenzio: Parallel Careers
From Varallo to Loreto: Landscapes of Pilgrimage
Holding Rome at a Distance: Lotto’s Loreto Network
Excursus: The Meaning of Style
Coercive Geometry
Moti: Emotional Dynamics
Gaudenzio as City Artist
5 Brescia and Bergamo, 1520–50: Sacred Naturalism and the Place of the Eucharist
Eucharistic Heterotopias in Lombardy: Romanino at Pisogne
Painting/Christogram/Eucharist
Moretto and the “Materiality” of Style
6 Against Titian
Artists “Off the Axis”: The Campi, the Carracci, and the Legacy of Correggio
The Afterlife of Titian in Milan
The 1540s: Titian as “Italian” Artist
Ludovico Dolce and the Invention of Venetian Painting
The Placelessness of Titian’s Late Style
Notes
Bibliography
Index