Research Catalog

Title

Hollow men : writing, objects, and public image in Renaissance Italy / Susan Gaylard.

Author

Gaylard, Susan.

Publication

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

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Details

Description

x, 372 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Analyzes texts and art objects from the 15th to the late 16th centuries to show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about representation, as these theories forced men to construct a public image that seemed fixed but could adapt to changing circumstances"--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• To 1700
• Renässansen
• Före 1500
• Italian literature > To 1400 > History and criticism
• Italian literature > 15th century > History and criticism
• Italian language > Early modern, 1500-1700
• Art, Renaissance > Italy > History
• Masculinity in literature
• Masculinity in art
• Renaissance > Italy
• LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Monuments, imitation, and the noble ideal in early Renaissance Italy. Introduction : reinventing nobility? : artifacts and the monumental pose from Petrarch to Platina ; How to perform like a statue : Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and exemplarity ; From castrated statues to empty colossi : emasculation vs. monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina -- II. Print monuments, exposure, and strategies of concealment. Banishing the hollow man : print, clothing and Aretino's Emblems of truth ; Heroes with damp brains? : image vs. text in printed portrait-books ; Silenus strategies : the failure of personal emblems -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 9780823251742 (hardback)
• 0823251748 (hardback)
• 9780823251919 (paper)
• 0823251918 (paper)

LCCN

^^2012049723

OCLC

• 826859599
• SCSB-11853033

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library