Research Catalog

Title

Images of sex and desire in Renaissance art and modern historiography / edited by Angeliki Pollali and Berthold Hub.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pollali, Angeliki
• Hub, Berthold

Description

xvii, 258 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This anthology offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits 'canonical' forms of visual culture, such as painting, sculpture and a number of emblematic manuscripts. The contributors focus on one image, either actual or thematic, and examine it against its historiographic assumptions. Through the use of interdisciplinary approaches, the essays propose to unmask the ideology(ies) of representation of sexuality and suggest a richer image of the ever shifting identities of gender. The anthology focuses on the Italian Renaissance, but also includes case studies from Germany and France.

Series Statement

Visual culture in early modernity

Uniform Title

Visual culture in early modernity.

Subjects

• Art > Historiography
• Art, Renaissance > Themes, motives
• Desire in art
• Sex in art

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.

Contents

Introduction. Renaissance sexuality and myth making / Angeliki Pollali -- Politics of desire: Stereotypes and ambiguity of gender identity. Body language in Dürer's Martyrdom of the ten thousand Christians / LInda C. Hults ; Hilarious homoeroticism, or the renaissance of stereotypes in Filarete's Bronze doors of St. Peter's / Peter Bell ; Carnal desire and conflicted sexual identity in a 'Dominican' chapel / Robin O'Bryan ; Mirror effects: the narcissus emblem in Scève's Délie / Nancy M. Frelick -- Mechanisms for actualizing desire: from seduction to 'Post-coital man'. Who is to blame? Representing adultery in early modern books: Alciato, Aneau, Brant, Ripa / Sabine Engel ; Cupid and the bear: emblems of creation and images of seduction in Sixteenth-Century art writing and love imagery / Romana Sammern ; The 'power of women' and post-coital man / Tatiana C. String ; The double strike: a psychoanalytic reading of Donatello's Judith and holofernes / Angeliki Pollali -- Beyond the 'Pleasure Principle' or the polysemy of desire. Violence and desire: fetishist impulses and violence against the female body in the Hyperotomachia poliphili / Liliana Leopardi ; Drunkenness, sex and desire in Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians / Franc̦ois Quiviger ; Pollution and desire in Hans Baldung Grien: the abject, erotic spell of the Witch and dragon / Yvonne Owens ; Gabrielle d'Estrées et l'une de ses Soeurs and the pleasures of proliferative criticism / Katherine Crawford.

Call Number

JQF 18-418

ISBN

• 9781138054240
• 1138054240

OCLC

990550217

Title

Images of sex and desire in Renaissance art and modern historiography / edited by Angeliki Pollali and Berthold Hub.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Visual culture in early modernity

Visual culture in early modernity.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-252) and index.

Added Author

Pollali, Angeliki, editor.

Hub, Berthold, editor.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-418