List of Figures Preface Introduction A nontriumphant Renaissance * The Reformation that never happened in Italy * Pre- and post-Trent * Range of the study Part 1 Excavations in Christian Art 1 Effects of Estrangement "These are your idols, which you have put in my temple" * Theater and its double * Art historians and their precursors * The time of the other * Attending effigies * Interior cult and exterior cult * Whores and idols 2 Erasure, Defacement, Unmasking Reform as art restoration * Defamiliarized icons * The "puppet painter" gets a hearing * Erasmus unmasks the saints 3 Excavations of the Image A picture of indeterminate subject and uncertain finish * Threshold painting * Figures in a loose and unready state * Images from the underside * Drawing brought to the surface * Reconfigurations * Christian art that is no longer * Related experiments 4 Re-mediations of the Altarpiece The painter's new profession * Raphael extracts the icon * Vision as re-mediation * Structures of archaism * Christocentrism * Transmutation chamber Part 2 Christ as Idol 5 Animated Statues Sculpture and the pictorial imaginary * The idol in Saint Augustine's study * Statue + column = idolatry * In the round and from behind * Showdown in the arena of painting * Ficino's ambivalent defense of image magic * The crucifix as anti-statue 6 The Antique Statue of Christ "Christ, who deserved a statue, received instead a cross" * A statue of Christ from the Holy Land * Replication and retroactivation * An antique Christ at the Minerva * Rhetorical interferences * Form as symbol 7 Avatars of the Golden Calf in the Works of Andrea Riccio Gregorio Cortese commissions art at Santa Giustina, 1513 * Moses and polytheism * A Moses-idol * Repetition compulsion * Christ as idol * The work of conversion * Uncompromising logic * Fire takes the form of bronze * Recursions * Religion on earth Part 3 Soft Iconoclasm 8 Architecture as Image Forms of iconophobia in Italy * A semiotic contest * Replacement and reversion * Early interventions at Florence and Siena * Figuration and fulfillment, and vice versa * "All the other things are shadows" 9 The Tabernacle in the Matrix "So long as it is not about saints" * Raimondi's I Modi in Giberti's Rome * Pornography as iconoclasm * Nonprocreative art * A new model of church art at Verona cathedral * The Virgin becomes architecture * Borromeo interprets Giberti 10 The Most Abstract Altarpiece of the Italian Renaissance The Vicenza altar and reform circles in northern Italy * Adventures in aniconism * The virtues of stones * The world is an animal * Displacement Notes Selected Sources.