Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600.

Intro -- Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History -- 1: Cross-Dressing in the Arena Chapel: Giotto's Virtue Fortitude Re-examined -- 2: The Liminal Feminine: Illuminating Europain the Ovide Moralisé -- 3: A Giant Corrupt Body: The Gendering of Renaissance Roma -- 4: Luca Signorelli's Veturia Persuading Coriolanus to Spare Rome and Viewers in the Palazzo Petrucci, Siena -- 5: Queer Fragments: Sodoma, the Belvedere Torso, and Saint Catherine's Head -- 6: The Trouble with Pasiphaë: Engendering a Myth at the Gonzaga Court -- 7: Vision, Voluptas, and the Poetics of Water in Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid -- 8: The Crone, the Witch, and the Library: The Intersection of Classical Fantasy with Christian Vice during the Italian Renaissance -- 9: Picturing Rape and Revenge in Ovid's Myth of Philomela -- 10: Figuring Florence: Gendered Bodies in Sixteenth-Century Personifications and Their Antique Models -- 11: Conjugal Piety: Creusa in Barocci's Aeneas' Flightfrom Troy -- 12: Ancient Idols, Lascivious Statues, and Sixteenth-Century Viewers in Roman Gardens -- Index*.

Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 examines the way in which late medieval and early modern visual culture engaged with Greek and Roman antiquity to construct and challenge contemporary gender norms.

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