In Your Face : Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy /

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In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discreti...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Biow, Douglas (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Artists > Italy > History > 16th century.
Authors, Italian > 16th century.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Italy > History > 16th century.
Personality and creative ability > Italy > History > 16th century.
Art.
History > Intellectual and Cultural.
HISTORY / Europe / Italy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • Note on Translations
  • Introduction
  • Part One. Diplomacy
  • 1. Baldassar Castiglione and the Art of Being Inconspicuously Conspicuous
  • Part Two. Food
  • 2. Pietro Aretino and the Art of Conspicuous Consumption
  • 3. Michelangelo Buonarroti and the Art of Conspicuous Absorption
  • Part Three. Objects
  • 4. Benvenuto Cellini and the Art of Conspicuous Production
  • 5. Anton Francesco Doni and the Art of Conspicuous Reproduction
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Extant Manuscripts with Designs by Doni, in Rough Order
  • Notes
  • Index

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