Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography [Paperback]

Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits canonical forms of visual culture, such as painting, sculpture and a number of emblematic manuscripts. The contributors focus on one imageeither actual or thematicand examine it against its historiographic assumptions. Through the use of interdisciplinary approaches, the essays propose to unmask the ideology(ies) of representation of sexuality and suggest a richer image of the ever-shifting identities of gender. The collection focuses on the Italian Renaissance, but also includes case studies from Germany and France.

Introduction

[Angeliki Pollali]

1. Body Language in D?rers Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians

[Linda C. Hults]

2. Hilarious Homoeroticism, or the Renaissance of Stereotypes in Filaretes Bronze Doors for St. Peters

[Peter Bell]

3. Carnal Desire and Conflicted Sexual Identity in a Dominican Chapel

[Robin OBryan]

4. Mirror Effects: The Narcissus Emblem in Sc?ves D?lie

[Nancy M. Frelick]

5. Who is to Blame? Representing Adultery in Early Modern Books: Alciato, Aneau, Brant, Ripa

[Sabine Engel]

6. Cupid and the Bear: Emblems of Creation and Images of Seduction in Sixteenth-Century Art Writing and Love Imagery

[Romana Sammern]