Women in Italian Renaissance Art Gender, representation, identity,9780719040542

Women in Italian Renaissance Art Gender, representation, identity

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ISBN13: 9780719040542
ISBN10: 071904054X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-04-17
Publisher(s): MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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Summary

Using letters, poems, and treatises, art historian Paola Tinagli examines how women were viewed and portrayed during the Italian Renaissance. The role of women as protagonists in painted narratives is explored in detail. All themes are closely linked to artistic problems and theory and to the social history of the period. 80 illus.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
vi(5)
FOREWORD xi(1)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xii
INTRODUCTION 1(20)
ONE Women, men and society: painted marriage furniture
21(26)
TWO Profile portraits in the Quattrocento: virtue and status
47(37)
THREE Portraits 1480-1560: beauty and power
84(37)
FOUR Female nudes in Renaissance art
121(34)
FIVE The cult of female saints: images of devotion and exempla
155(31)
CONCLUSION 186(5)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 191(8)
INDEX 199

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