Matthew Knox Averett - The Early Modern Child in Art and History

THE EARLY MODERN CHILD IN ART AND
HISTORY

THE BODY, GENDER AND CULTURE

Series Editor: Marjorie Levine-Clark

TITLES IN THIS SERIES

1 Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India
Angma Dey Jhala

2 Paracelsus's Theory of Embodiment: Conception and Gestation in Early Modern Europe
Amy Eisen Cislo

3 The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain
Nina Attwood

4 Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine
Daniel Schfer

5 The Life of Madame Necker: Sin, Redemption and the Parisian Salon
Sonja Boon

6 Stays and Body Image in London: The Staymaking Trade, 16801810
Lynn Sorge-English

7 Prostitution and Eighteenth-Century Culture: Sex, Commerce and Morality
Ann Lewis and Markman Ellis (eds)

8 The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World
Shino Konishi

9 Anatomy and the Organization of Knowledge, 15001850
Matthew Landers and Brian Muoz (eds)

10 Blake, Gender and Culture
Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne J. Connolly (eds)

11 Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England
Helen Yallop

12 The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 18381900
Glhan Balsoy

13 The Study of Anatomy in Britain, 17001900
Fiona Hutton

14 Interpreting Sexual Violence, 16601800
Anne Greenfield (ed.)

15 Women, Agency and the Law, 13001700
Bronach Kane and Fiona Williamson (eds)

16 Sex, Identity and Hermaphrodites in Iberia, 15001800
Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vzquez Garca

17 The English Execution Narrative, 12001700
Katherine Royer

FORTHCOMING TITLES

British Masculinity and the YMCA, 18441914
Geoff Spurr

Infanticide and Abortion in Early Modern Germany
Margaret Brannan Lewis

EDITED BY
Matthew Knox Averett

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The early modern child in art and history. (The body, gender and culture)
1. Children in art. 2. Art, European. 3. Children Europe History.
I. Series II. Averett, Matthew Knox, editor.
704.9'425-dc23

ISBN-13: 978-1-84893-579-2 (hbk)

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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, mile, Book II.

This book was born out of papers delivered for sessions at two academic conferences that I organized in 2013 and 2014. The first session, 'Children in the Renaissance', was organized for the Renaissance Society of America meeting held in San Diego, in April 2013, and was sponsored by the South-Central Renaissance Conference and the Society for Renaissance Art History. The second session, 'The Early Modern Child in Art and History', convened for the College Art Association meetings in Chicago, in February 2014. Additional contributions to this book were solicited from other authors. The goal of these conference sessions was to present art-historical investigations of earlier conceptions of childhood and to help reconstruct various aspects of the lives of early modern children. While individual contributors have made acknowledgements in their chapters, I would like to thank a number of people who helped make this project possible. First, of course, are the other contributors: each of your papers was interesting and educational, affording a new look at some exceptional art. Thanks to the organizers of the RSA meetings in 2013 and the CAA meetings in 2014. At Creighton University, my thanks to Bridget Keegan, Fred Hanna and Rose Hill, all of whom gave continuous support to this project from its inception several years ago, and to the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Fine and Performing Arts who helped fund this book. My thanks also to Keith Eggener at the University of Oregon, who helped me get this project organized and off the ground. A profound thanks to Janka Romero at Pickering & Chatto for her enthusiasm for the project and for shepherding it through to completion, and to Sarah Thomas who led the team at P&C that put the book together. My deep gratitude to my wife, Erin Walcek Averett, who encouraged me to begin this project and who helped me think about children, be they ancient, early modern, or modern. Above all, though, I wish to thank my daughters, Annabel, Chloe and Lily, who were the inspiration for this project.

Matthew Knox Averett is Associate Professor of Art History at Creighton University. He took his PhD in Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri where he specialized in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture. His recent publications include 'Becoming Giorgio Cornaro: Titian's Portrait of a Man with a Falcon' in the Zeitschrift fr Kunstgeschichte (2011), 'The Annual Medals of Pope Urban VIII Barberini' in the American Journal of Numismatics (2013) and " Redditus Orbis Erat' : The Political Rhetoric of Bernini's Fountains in Piazza Barberini' in the Sixteenth Century Journal (2014). He is currently completing work on a book on Bernini's Triton Fountain.

Jasmin W. Cyril has a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her Masters, also in Art History, is from the University of Oregon, Eugene. Dr. Cyril's research interests include the Medieval and Renaissance Italy and the Mediterranean basin. She has publications in the art of Ancient Rome, Medieval Italy and the Renaissance in Tuscany, primarily in Florence and Siena. Most of her research has lately focused on women and identity. Dr. Cyril has participated in four NEH Summer Seminars, three in Italy.