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Foul Biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print
Published in 1579 in Perugia, Diego Valadés's Rhetorica christiana is best known today as the first illustrated publication to show evangelisation efforts in the Americas to audiences across the Atlantic. Yet too often the Rhetorica's status in the history of art is that of exotica, a book seen as rare and valuable due to its American subject matter and its presumed mestizo authorship. This essay argues that these persistent miscategorisations exemplify a systemic failure to look beyond the images' representational content and account for the book's specific production history. The etched illustration programme of the Rhetorica not only details European proselytising efforts and Indigenous customs, but the book's facture also repositions colonial experience as central to artistic ambition and innovation in Europe, prompting a reassessment of print cultures of the early modern transatlantic world.
期刊介绍:
Art History is a refereed journal that publishes essays and reviews on all aspects, areas and periods of the history of art, from a diversity of perspectives. Founded in 1978, it has established an international reputation for publishing innovative essays at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, whether on earlier or more recent periods. At the forefront of scholarly enquiry, Art History is opening up the discipline to new developments and to interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches.