Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)

Rebekah Compton

ISBN 10: 1108842917 / ISBN 13: 9781108842914

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021

Hardcover. In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era. Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 13001600. In the course of deconstructing Venus's trajectory, this book critically examines the materials and techniques that artists employed to fulfill and even enhance the goddess's iconographic demands. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781108842914

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This book examines Venus and her arts of love in the society, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300–1600.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Rebekah Compton is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is a recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and a fellow of I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance ...
Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: new