9780754669623 - Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire (Visual Culture in Early Modernity) von Colantuono, Anthony (4 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Gut. XI; 316 Seiten; graph. Darst.; farb. Illustrationen; 25 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband m. farb. illustr. OUmschlag. Gutes Exemplar; der illustr. Umschlag stw. geringfügig berieben. - Englisch. - This book sets a new standard for the analysis of Renaissance texts and for iconographic studies in art history. Rehearsing in compelling detail the process through which mytho-poetic 'inventions' were conceived in Italy for courtly cabinet-paintings, Colantuono presents a fascinating re-reading of Bellini's and Titian's famous 'bacchanals,' painted for Alfonso d'Este in the early sixteenth century. Informed by a neo-Aristotelian discourse on 'the natural' (seasonal) causes of sexual desire, these paintings, we now understand, served to instruct the knowledgeable viewer on the healthful and productive management of the male libido, so important to the dynastic endurance of the d'Este and other Italian elites who constituted the paintings' viewing audience. Deftly combining erudite intellectual history with a situated excursus on the snares oflibidinal desire and the efficacy of managing sex, this book presents a cogent interpretation of famously enigmatic pictorial 'texts' and is a 'must read' across the disciplines in early modern studies, offering a paradigmatic analysis of the production and reception of Renaissance art. Karen-edis Barzman, Binehamton University, USA . (Verlagstext) // INHALT : List of Plates, Figures and Illustrations Note on Texts and Translations Preface and Acknowledgments ------ Introduction ------ PART ONE ------ Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola and the Libidinal Seasons: Proemium ------ The Libido in Winter: Bellini's (and Titian's) Feast of the Gods ------ The Libido in Springtime: Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne ------ The Libido in Summer: Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians ------ The Libido in Autumn: Titian's Feast of Venus ------ Interpreting the Camerino: Titian's Bacchanals as Procreative Pedagogy ------ Colonna's Poliphilus - The Science and Season of ------ Sexual Performance: Proemium ------ Duke Guidubaldo's Dysfunction: Poliphilus and the Diagnosis of Love ------ Poliphilus's Nightmare and Erotic Magic: An Excursus on the Bewitching of the Male Genitalia ------ Poliphilus's Wet Dream ------ A Venus in the Bedroom ------ Coloring the Roses: Colonna, Titian and the 'Third Venus' ------ A Sacred/Profane Love: The Dodonian Font and Poliphilus's Wedding ------ Conclusion ------ Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780754669623 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 750.

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