Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) is known today—as he was in his own time—for his highly personal visual language, one capable of generating images of the most mesmerizing oddity. In this book, Dennis Geronimus overcomes the scarcity of information about the artist’s life and works—only one of the nearly sixty known works by Piero is actually signed and dated—and pieces together from extensive archival research the most complete and accurate account of Piero’s life and career ever written. Unfettered imagination was the sign under which Piero exercised his pictorial invention, and yet the complicated artist was also a product of his culture. The book fills gaps in the artist’s biography and provides intensive analysis of Piero’s protean imagery, discusses his various patrons and commissions, and lists his extant, lost, and uncertainly attributed works.

This volume deals with the role of saints and exemplary persons in Judaism and Christianity throughout history to the present time in an interdisciplinary perspective.

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"Profiling Saints" follows and expands the papers presented at the homonym online international conference (December 2021), which focused on cultural, theological, artistic, and social aspects of models of sanctity and their importance in the modern world up to the post-revolutionary period. This volume aims thus to shed light on the cultural value of canonizations and models of sanctity as models of Christian perfection, including the role of iconography and artworks, in the broader context of modern, global Catholicism. The topics presented by the authors include veneration to, and canonization and representations of, saint theologians, missionaries, martyrs, mystics, and reformers, men and women. "Profiling Saints" looks at modern sanctity and saints from multidisciplinary perspectives, ranging from liturgy, theology, and Church history up to history of ideas, cultural history, history of emotions, and art history, and contributes to shed light on such a complex phenomenon of Christian history in its modern developments.

Gifts and Exchange Andrew Cowell Swords, Clubs and Relics: Performance, Identity and the Sacred Deborah McGrady 'Tout son païs m'abandonna': Reinventing Patronage in Machaut's Fonteinne amoureuse Margaret Burland Narrative Objects and Living Stories in Galeran de Bretagne Images and Portraits Peggy McCracken Miracles, Mimesis, and the Efficacy of Images Alexa Sand Vision and the Portrait of Jean le Bon Cynthia Brown Books in Performance: The Parisian Entry (1504) and Funeral (1514) of Anne of Brittany Ann Rosalind Jones Habits, Holdings, Heterologies: Populations in Print in a 1562 Costume Book George Hoffmann Montaigne's Nudes: The Lost Tower Paintings Rediscovered Plans and Procedures Jeff Persels Taking the Piss out of Pantagruel: Urine and Micturition in Rabelais David LaGuardia Interrogation and the Performance of Truth in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris Andrea Tarnowski Material Examples: Philippe de Mézières's Order of the Passion Michael Randall Sword and Subject in Du Haillan's Histoire de France (1576)

The work that Titian produced during the first decade of his career is beautiful and varied, but it has raised many questions of attribution and chronology. This book - the first thorough and coherent account of this period in Titian's life - reconstructs what he painted, when he painted it and what these paintings mean. Paul Joannides begins by discussing the probable course of Titian's early career and his relationship to the Bellinis. There are individual excurses on Giorgione and on Sebastiano del Piombo whose work has often been confused with his. Joannides then offers new interpretations of some of Titian's paintings, emphasising their poetic and dramatic qualities. Among other topics, he associates for the first time the paintings in Saint Petersburg, Venice and Houston; lays out Titian's part of the Fondaco; connects the privately owned Resurrected Christ with the Fogg Circumcision; integrates the Dresden Venus and the Berlin Portrait into Titian's work; and establishes the dynamism and inventiveness of the great Assunta of 1516-18. Joannides provides detailed arguments in support of both new and familiar attributions, proposes a more closely reasoned and precise chronology

Explores the health systems of 17 countries through comparative study. Using a consistent framework, the chapters offer an overview of each country's history, geography, government, and economy, as well as a detailed analysis of the country s healthcare system facilities, workforce, technology, cost, quality, and access. Current and emerging issues are also explored. The book concludes with a look at the changing U.S. healthcare system and the global challenges and opportunities for health. Ideal for courses in global health, international affairs, health administration, and public health, this innovative text challenges its readers to reflect deeply about how health care is organized and delivered.