Mary D. Edwards is a professor of art history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York and is a member of the Renaissance Seminar at Columbia University. Her articles have appeared in Studies in Iconography, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. Elizabeth Bailey is a professor of art history at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. Her work has been published in Speculum and Explorations in Renaissance Culture.

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Acknowledgments viii
Introduction

MARY D. EDWARDS and ELIZABETH BAILEY

PART ONE: ANCIENT THROUGH NINETEENTH-CENTURY ART

The Flight of Icarus in the House of the Priest Amandus in Pompeii

BETTINA BERGMANN

Levitating Gods and Dream Imagery on Roman Coinage

CONSTANTIN A. MARINESCU

Succumbing to Gravity in the Hortus Deliciarum of Herrad of Hohenbourg

ELIZABETH BAILEY

Descent, Elevation and Ascent: Oppositional Forces in the Strozzi di Mantova Chapel

KATHLEEN GILES ARTHUR

Altichiero, Giotto, Dante and the Metaphorical Use of Gravity and Levity

MARY D. EDWARDS

The Floating Book: A Reading of Saint Dominic's Miraculous Book in Italian Art in the Late Thirteenth through the Early Fifteenth Centuries

ELIZABETH BAILEY

Leaps of Faith in the Portinari Altarpiece of Hugo van der Goes

MARY D. EDWARDS

The Idea of Weightlessness in Girolamo da Carpi's Kairos and Penitentia (Opportunity and Penitence)

MARTINA PFLEGER HESSER

Erotic Fallout in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne

PERRY BROOKS

The Suspension of Gravity in Giandomenico Tiepolo's Punchinelli on a Swing

JOHANNA FASSL

An Uplifting Finale for Jacques-Louis David: Coming to Peace with Mars Disarmed

KATIE HANSON

Mind Over Matter: Levitation and the Defiance of Nature in Late Nineteenth-Century Painting

SARAH LIPPERT

Perilous Flight: Icarus' Transgression of Masculinity

JONGWOO JEREMY KIM

PART TWO: TWENTIETH-CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY ART

The Joy of Breathing: Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Uplift in the Art of Arthur B. Davies

ROBIN VEDER
Gravitace, or Gravity in the Social and Artistic Thought of Bohumil Kubišta

ELEANOR F. MOSEMAN

Joseph Cornell's Universe: Gravity's Attractions

KIRSTEN HOVING

Pipe Dreams: In Search of an Allegorical Magritte

SANDRA ZALMAN

Falling to Heaven: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Pagés and Levity at "the Centre of the Universe"

ELLIOTT H. KING

"The Effort of the Dance": Gravity and Levity in the Poured Paintings of Jackson Pollock

ELIZABETH L. LANGHORNE

Piero Manzoni's Socle du Monde

GREGORY TENTLER

Gravity and the Grave: Jasper Johns and the Metaphorics of the Fall

ISABELLE LORING WALLACE

From Vertigo to Ethereality in Environmental

MATTHEW KOLODZIEJ

Falling Bodies and the Problem of Remembrance: Eric Fischl's Tumbling Woman

ADRIENNE POSNER

AA Bronson's Hanged Man: Martyrdom, Ambiguity, and Abu Ghraib

ANDREA D. FITZPATRICK

Photographic Moments Inside of Gravity: Kerry Skarbakka's Struggle to Right Himself

COREY DZENKO

Mariko Mori and Pipilotti Rist: Reflections on the "New Levity" in

ELIZABETH BAILEY

Epilogue

MARY D. EDWARDS
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