| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 467 pages) : illustrations (some color). |
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text file PDF |
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polychrome |
| Series |
Metaforms : studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; volume. 3
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Metaforms ; v. 3.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sex role in art.
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Sex role in art. |
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Civilization, Classical, in art.
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Civilization, Classical, in art. |
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Civilization, Western -- Classical influences.
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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. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Art and society -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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| Chronological Term |
16th century |
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To 1599 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Rose, Marice E., editor.
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Poe, Alison C., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Receptions of antiquity, constructions of gender in European art, 1300-1600. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015] 9789004278745 (DLC) 2015004853 (OCoLC)898086862 |
| ISBN |
9789004289697 (electronic book) |
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9004289690 (electronic book) |
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9789004278745 |
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9004278745 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004289697 |
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