Hollow Men : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy /

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This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdiscipli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gaylard, Susan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Art, Renaissance > Italy > History.
Italian language > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Italian literature > 15th century > History and criticism.
Italian literature > To 1400 > History and criticism.
Masculinity in art.
Masculinity in literature.
Renaissance > Italy.
Art & Visual Culture.
Literary Studies.
Renaissance Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance.
Aretino.
Bembo.
Castiglione.
Ghirlandaio.
Pontano.
Tasso.
exemplar.
impresa.
monument.
portrait.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. MONUMENTS, IMITATION, AND THE NOBLE IDEAL IN EARLY RENAISSANCE ITALY
  • Introduction: Reinventing Nobility? Artifacts and the Monumental Pose from Petrarch to Platina
  • 1. How to Perform Like a Statue: Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and Exemplarity
  • 2. From Castrated Statues to Empty Colossi: Emasculation vs. Monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina
  • II. PRINT MONUMENTS, EXPOSURE, AND STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT
  • 3. Banishing the Hollow Man: Print, Clothing, and Aretino's Emblems of Truth
  • 4. Heroes with Damp Brains? Image vs. Text in Printed Portrait-Books
  • 5. Silenus Strategies: The Failure of Personal Emblems
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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