| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 467 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; volume. 3 |
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Metaforms ; v. 3.
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| Contents |
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction: Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History; 1: Cross-Dressing in the Arena Chapel: Giotto's Virtue Fortitude Re-examined; 2: The Liminal Feminine: Illuminating Europain the Ovide Moralisé; 3: A Giant Corrupt Body: The Gendering of Renaissance Roma; 4: Luca Signorelli's Veturia Persuading Coriolanus to Spare Rome and Viewers in the Palazzo Petrucci, Siena |
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5: Queer Fragments: Sodoma, the Belvedere Torso, and Saint Catherine's Head6: The Trouble with Pasiphaë: Engendering a Myth at the Gonzaga Court; 7: Vision, Voluptas, and the Poetics of Water in Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid; 8: The Crone, the Witch, and the Library: The Intersection of Classical Fantasy with Christian Vice during the Italian Renaissance; 9: Picturing Rape and Revenge in Ovid's Myth of Philomela; 10: Figuring Florence: Gendered Bodies in Sixteenth-Century Personificationsand Their Antique Models; 11: Conjugal Piety: Creusa in Barocci's Aeneas' Flightfrom Troy |
| Summary |
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 examines the way in which late medieval and early modern visual culture engaged with Greek and Roman antiquity to construct and challenge contemporary gender norms |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Sex role in art.
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Civilization, Classical, in art.
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Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.
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Art and society -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
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Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 16th century
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ART -- Subjects & Themes -- General.
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Art and society
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Civilization, Classical, in art
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Civilization, Western -- Classical influences
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Sex role in art
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rose, Marice E., editor.
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Poe, Alison C., editor.
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| ISBN |
9789004289697 |
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9004289690 |
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