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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
[2010]
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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).