Marisa Anne Bass

Books⁴

The Monument’s End: Public Art and the Modern Republic Marisa Anne Bass
How today’s questions surrounding monuments and the ways we commemorate our past first arose in Rembrandt’s time
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Conchophilia: Shells, Art, and Curiosity in Early Modern Europe Marisa Anne Bass, Anne Goldgar, Hanneke Grootenboer, and Claudia Swan
A captivating historical look at the cultural and artistic significance of shells in early modern Europe
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Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt Marisa Anne Bass
How the nature illustrations of a Renaissance polymath reflect his turbulent age
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Jan Gossart and the Invention of Netherlandish Antiquity Marisa Anne Bass
The first English-language study of Jan Gossart, one of the leading painters of the Northern Renaissance
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Ideas¹

Monuments on fire In October 2023, one monument met its end for the sake of another. A bronze equestrian statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee that had stood in Charlottesville, Virginia since 1924 was sent to the furnace to be melted down, piece by piece, a... Read More