{"title":"In Praise of a Fly","authors":"Michael Gaudio","doi":"10.1086/724210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724210","url":null,"abstract":"Suetonius tells us that the emperor Domitian, at the beginning of his reign, would “spend hours in seclusion every day, doing nothing but catch flies and stab them with a keenly-sharpened stylus.” When the emperor’s advisor was asked whether anyone was inside the room with Caesar, he wittily replied, “Not even a fly.” The anecdote offers insight into Domitian’s character: the young tyrant’s ruthless acts of insecticide anticipate the many subsequent cruelties he inflicted on men. The fly has always been an emblem of human helplessness before the Fates. “As flies to wanton boys are we to th’ gods,” laments the blind Gloucester in King Lear, “They kill us for their sport.”","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83382682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Destined to Rule: The Symbolism of the Jade-Colored Throne in the Yongle Emperor’s Portrait","authors":"Quincy Ngan","doi":"10.1086/724207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724207","url":null,"abstract":"The Yongle emperor (Zhu Di, 1360–1424; r. 1402–24) was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). He is most well-known for his sponsorship of treasure voyages to India, Arabia, and East Africa and for moving the capital from Nanjing to Beijing following his coup against the second Ming ruler, the Jianwen emperor (Zhu Yunwen, 1377– 1402; r. 1398–1402), whowas also Yongle’s nephew. Scholars are familiar with the image of Yongle from the painting Portrait of Emperor Yongle","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79466176","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial Note: Transformations","authors":"John Cunnally","doi":"10.1086/724213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724213","url":null,"abstract":"In choosing the essays for this issue of Source, I aimed for our usual variety of medium, period, and methodology, without being conscious of an overall theme. But I notice that many of the articles in this issue revolve around the power of art to transform or provoke a metamorphosis, such as changing a novice to a knight, converting a solid building to a visionary fantasy, or promoting a usurper into a legitimate ruler. This transformative power, of course, also has its effect on the viewer, for whom a work of art, in whatever medium, may provoke a spiritual or emotional makeover. In the Broadway musical Billy Elliot, the provincial dance teacher, Mrs. Wilkinson, tells her clumsy pupils (all of them","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81336999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Spanish Painter in the White House: Joaquín Sorolla’s Portrait of President William Howard Taft (1909)","authors":"Fátima Bethencourt Pérez","doi":"10.1086/724211","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724211","url":null,"abstract":"In April 1909 William Howard Taft posed at the White House for the only Spanish artist who has ever portrayed a president of the United States of America: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863–1923). The commission was a direct consequence of the overwhelming success that the painter had achieved in his first exhibition in the United States, inaugurated the previous February at the Hispanic Society of America in New York under Spanish royal patronage.","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77992182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chastity’s Knight: Allegory and Chivalry in Assisi","authors":"J. Renner","doi":"10.1086/724206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724206","url":null,"abstract":"The densely populated frescoes by Giotto and his workshop in the crossing vaults of the Lower Church of San Francesco at Assisi, generally dated to the second decade of the fourteenth century, still resist iconographical exegesis. The three allegories of the Franciscan vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience are particularly challenging: their imagery is unique and complex, presenting enigmatic tableaux acted out by historical and symbolic figures amid throngs of angels. This article offers a new interpretation of a central incident in one of the vele (sails), as the frescoes are","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72665834","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oscar White Muscarella (1931–2022)","authors":"Elizabeth Simpson","doi":"10.1086/724212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86097960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Architectural Photography of Annette and Rudi Rada: Modernity and Tradition in Miami and Havana","authors":"Victor Deupi","doi":"10.1086/722326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722326","url":null,"abstract":"The architectural photography of Annette and Rudi Rada documented the cities, buildings, landscapes, and people of South Florida and the Caribbean from approximately 1946 to 1975, at a time when publications such as the Miami Herald, House & Garden, the American Home, and others were promoting travel to a region that was still largely perceived as an untouched paradise. Both self-taught, the couple produced work for nearly thirty years that explored the local cultures of","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87475714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Childbirth Tray with the Trial of Moses","authors":"J. Musacchio","doi":"10.1086/722320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722320","url":null,"abstract":"During the Italian Renaissance, primarily in Florence but also more broadly in Tuscany and elsewhere, painted wooden trays (deschi da parto), as well as painted wooden bowls (tafferie da parto), were used to encourage, celebrate, and commemorate childbirth. Less than a hundred are known today, some intact and others fragmentary. However, during the height of their popularity, it is very likely that thousands of these trays and bowls were made for families across the economic spectrum. Like the painted marriage chests with which they are frequently associated, they were handed down from parent to child or sold on the","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84112825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking Colors: Ercole Sarti and the Verses That Gave Voice to His Paintings","authors":"A. L. Conte","doi":"10.1086/722322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87748402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Last Judgment of Savonarola","authors":"Rob Millard","doi":"10.1086/722321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/722321","url":null,"abstract":"Of the nearly four hundred figures in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Last Judgment fresco (1536–41), fewer than one hundred have been identified as recognizable individuals (fig. 1). Most of these are canonical: many are biblical (Christ, the Virgin, John the Baptist); others are saints, distinguishable by the attributes of martyrdom (Sebastian, Bartholomew, Lawrence); and some are characters of a mythological cast (Minos, Charon). Fewer still are apparent portraits of Michelangelo’s contemporaries in the guises of particular saints or sinners. One of the few perceptible personalities to appear, not in an allegorical mien but","PeriodicalId":43235,"journal":{"name":"SOURCE-NOTES IN THE HISTORY OF ART","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80179171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}