Sense Knowledge and the Challenge of Italian Renaissance Art

Giles Knox is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at Indiana University. He has edited, together with Tanya J. Tiffany: Velázquez Re-Examined: Theory, History, Poetry, and Theatre, Brepols, 2017. He is the author of The Late Paintings of Velázquez: Theorizing Painterly Performance, Ashgate, 2009.

• Acknowledgements,List of Illustrations, Introduction: Polemics of Painting Part One - Origin Stories and the Challenge of Italy, Chapter One - El Greco: Italy, Crete, Toledo, Chapter Two - From El Greco to Velázquez: Juan Bautista Maíno Part Two - Illusion, Materiality, Touch, Chapter Three - Velázquez and Inversion: Making and Illusion, Chapter Four - Vulcan, Mars, and Venus: Erotic Touch, Chapter Five - Late Rembrandt I: Texture and Skilled Touch, Chapter Six - Late Rembrandt II: Feeling with the Eyes, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index.