Victor I. Stoichita

Through more than 200 works, the representation and pictorial meaning of the window in Western art since the Renaissance have been both a metaphor and an essential conceptual tool in Western painting. A Window on the World seeks to thoroughly analyse the gradual changes which have occurred in the representation and pictorial meaning of the window, particularly in the course...

Difference exists; otherness is constructed. This book asks how important Western artists, from Giotto to Titian and Caravaggio, and from Bosch to Durer and Rembrandt, shaped the imaging of non-Western individuals in early modern art. Victor I. Stoichita's nuanced and detailed study examines images of racial otherness during a time of new encounters of the West with different cultures and...