Accademia Degli Incogniti
Allie Terry
Ann Rosalind Jones
Bronzino's Allegory
Bronzino's Painting
Bruno's Philosophy
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Daniella Rossi
Del Mondo
Della Casa
Diane Wolfthal
Drug Jars
early modern sexual practices analysis
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Erin Griffey
erotic art history
Fasoli Paolo
Fisher Will
gender studies Italy
Henri III
Henry Chriscinda
Hess Catherine
Jutta Sperling
Karina Feliciano Attar
King Henry III
Knidian Aphrodite
La Serra
La Sorella
Levy Allison
Madonna Lactans
material culture sexuality
Mccall Timothy
National Library
Patricia Simons
Patron Artist Relationship
Perino Del Vaga
Pietro Aretino
Pio Monte Della Misericordia
Problematic Partners
prostitution research Venice
queer theory Renaissance
Rachel ?. Poulsen
Renaissance visual culture
Robert Mills
Roman Charity
San Gimignano
Sebald Beham
Sergius Kodera
Signora Vittoria
Spot Lights
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754667483
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Emphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects and painted ceramic jars. In this way, the volume presents an entirely new picture of Renaissance sexuality, stripping away layers of misconceptions and manipulations to reveal an often-misunderstood world. 'Sex acts' is interpreted broadly, from the acting out, or performing, of one's (or another's) sex to sexual activity, including what might be considered, now or then, peculiar practices and preferences and a variety of possibly scandalous scenarios. While the contributors come from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, this collection foregrounds the visual culture of early modern sexuality, from representations of sex and sexualized bodies to material objects associated with sexual activities. The picture presented here nuances our understanding of Renaissance sexuality as well as our own.
Allison Levy is an art historian concerned with representations of the early modern body. She is author of Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence: Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture and editor of Widowhood and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe.
