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In your face professional improprieties and the art of being conspicuous in sixteenth-century Italy

Title: In your face [electronic resource] : professional improprieties and the art of being conspicuous in sixteenth-century Italy / Douglas Biow.
Author: Biow, Douglas.
Publication: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010.

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Description

1 online resource (xviii, 246 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

In your face (Online)

Alternative Title

In your face (Online)

Subject

Personality and creative ability > Italy > History > 16th century
Artists > Italy > History > 16th century
Authors, Italian > 16th century
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Italy > History > 16th century
Italy > Civilization > 16th century

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

Baldassar Castiglione and the art of being inconspicuously conspicuous -- Pietro Aretino and the art of conspicuous consumption -- Michelangelo Buonarroti and the art of conspicuous absorption -- Benvenuto Cellini and the art of conspicuous production -- Anton Francesco Doni and the art of conspicuous reproduction.

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