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Heaven and the flesh : imagery of desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo / Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson.

Title
Heaven and the flesh : imagery of desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo / Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson.
Author
Hart, Clive.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Stevenson, Kay Gilliland.
Description
xiv, 237 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Subject
  • Arts, European
  • Arts, Modern > 17th century > Europe
  • Arts, Modern > 18th century > Europe
  • Arts, Renaissance
  • Desire in art
  • Desire in literature
  • Erotica > history
  • Erotica
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Sexuality and ascension -- finding the way -- The woman on top -- Christ, Endymion, Ganymede -- Paradisiacal bosoms -- Imparadised in one another's arms -- Heaven and the flesh -- The body and ascension in the sacred rococo art of southern Germany and Austria -- The assumption and its transformations -- Conclusion -- Jacob's ladder and Keats's Endymion -- Appendix.
ISBN
0521495717 (hardback)
LCCN
^^^95002767^
OCLC
32014995
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library