Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400-1550

＂Explores how animals depicted in European court art between 1400-1550 incorporate and expand beyond the semiotic and naturalistic concerns that have largely driven the art historical consideration of early modern representations of animals＂--

Jodi Cranston is Professor of the History of Art at Boston University. She is the author of The Muddied Mirror: Materiality and Figuration in Titian’s Later Paintings and Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice, both published by Penn State University Press.