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Author Maurer, Maria F., author.

Title Gender, space and experience at the Renaissance court : performance and practice at the Palazzo Te / Maria F. Maurer.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Palace in Cyberspace: A Note on the Virtual Tour -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Performative Palace -- 2. Spaces of Ceremony -- 3. The Palace in Time -- 4. The Unbounded Palace -- 5. The Troubled Palace -- Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth -- Index
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Subject Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy) -- History.
Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy)
History.
Architecture -- Human factors -- Italy -- Mantua.
Architecture -- Human factors.
Italy -- Mantua.
Architecture -- Italy -- Mantua -- Psychological aspects.
Architecture.
Psychological aspects.
Architecture and society -- Italy -- Mantua.
Architecture and society.
Sex role -- Italy -- Mantua -- History.
Sex role.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Gender roles.
Other Form: Print version: Mauer, Maria F. Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court : Performance and Practice at the Palazzo Te. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2019 9789462985537
ISBN 9789048536689 (electronic book)
9048536685 (electronic book)
9789462985537
9462985537