| Description |
xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism |
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Cambridge studies in new art history and criticism.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Object Lessons -- 1. Le Nozze d'Emilia: Amazons, Armed and Beautiful -- 2. Dido: Taking the Gold out of Carthage -- 3. Camilla: Filialogy and the Family Romance -- 4. Hersilia and the Sabine Women: Piece Making -- 5. Lucretia: Dangerous Familiars -- 6. Virginia/Virginius: Her Body, Himself |
| Summary |
Overlooked in traditional studies of Italian art, cassone painting was nonetheless a popular genre in Renaissance Tuscany. Made by little-known or anonymous painters for largely undocumented patrons, these decorated chests display "high-art" subject matter, a contradiction that has discouraged their study. Drawing on historical context and poststructuralist textual interpretation, Cristelle Baskins argues that these furniture paintings played an important role in the socialization and gender formation of women in early modern Italy |
| Analysis |
Virginia |
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Geschichte 1400-1500 |
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Italien |
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Ikonographie |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance -- Italy -- Themes, motives.
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Mythology, Classical, in art.
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Painted cassoni -- History -- 15th century -- Themes, motives.
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Women in art.
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Women -- Italy -- Identity
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| LC no. |
97032147 |
| ISBN |
0521583934 |
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