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Author Springer, Carolyn.

Title Armour and masculinity in the Italian Renaissance / Carolyn Springer.

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 241 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
text file
Series Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
Contents The classical body: the Poetics of the Bella Fiqura -- The sacred body: the armour of sacrifice -- The grotesque body: tropes and apotropes -- Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514-74) -- Charles V Habsburg (1500-58) -- Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74).
Summary "During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.
Luxury armour became a chief accessory in the performance of elite male identity, coded with messages regarding the owner's social status, genealogy, and political alliances. Carolyn Springer decodes Renaissance armour as three-dimensional portraits through the case studies of three patrons of luxury armourers, Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514-75), Charles V Habsburg (1500-58 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-56), and Cosimo I de'Medici (1519-74). A fascinating exposition of male self-representation, Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance explores the significance of armour in early modern Italy as both cultural artefact and symbolic form."--Pub. desc.
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Language Includes some text in Italian.
Subject Armor, Renaissance -- Social aspects -- Italy.
Armor, Renaissance.
Social aspects.
Italy.
Italy -- Civilization -- 1268-1559.
Civilization.
Chronological Term 1268-1559
Subject Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559.
Intellectual life.
Masculinity -- Italy -- History.
Masculinity.
History.
Armor in art.
Armor in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Springer, Carolyn. Armour and masculinity in the Italian Renaissance. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2010 9781442640559 (OCoLC)466659581
ISBN 144268576X (electronic book)
9781442685765 (electronic book)
9781442640559
1442640553