In your face : professional improprieties and the art of being conspicuous in sixteenth-century Italy /

This study 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 discretion...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Biow, Douglas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
1500-1599
Geschichte 1500-1600.
Personality and creative ability > Italy > History > 16th century.
Artists > Italy > History > 16th century.
Authors, Italian > 16th century.
Eccentrics and eccentricities > Italy > History > 16th century.
Personnalité et créativité > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Artistes > Italie > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Écrivains italiens > 16e siècle.
HISTORY > Europe > Italy.
Artists.
Authors, Italian.
Civilization.
Eccentrics and eccentricities.
Personality and creative ability.
Kunst
Tabuverletzung
Ungehorsam
Exzentrizität
Beeldende kunstenaars.
Zelfpresentatie.
Promotie (public relations)
Italy > Civilization > 16th century.
Italie > Civilisation > 16e siècle.
Italy.
Italien
Italië
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Baldassar Castiglione and the art of being inconspicuously conspicuous
  • Pietro Aretino and the art of conspicuous consumption
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti and the art of conspicuous absorption
  • Benvenuto Cellini and the art of conspicuous production
  • Anton Francesco Doni and the art of conspicuous reproduction.

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