Recent Studies of Literature and Painting in the English Renaissance

The recent scholarship on the relationship between English Renaissance literature and Renaissance painting, both English and Continental, reviewed here surveys sixteen general studies followed by an examination of selected topics (Portraiture, Landscape, Iconography, Drama, Mannerism, Baroque) and selected authors (More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Chapman, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Suckling, Crashaw, Marvell, and Milton). Most of this work has been written in the past twenty years, a period in which the older approach of Geistgeschichte has been supplanted by iconographic and rhetorical methods. The essay concludes with a selected bibliograph of major works on Renaissance art history and art theory.