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Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance /

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...

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Autor principal: Springer, Carolyn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2010]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).