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Toulouse Renaissance
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ISBN: 9782757213605 2757213601 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris : Toulouse : Somogy éditions ; Musée des Augustins,

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The riddle of Jael : the history of a poxied heroine in Medieval and Renaissance art and culture
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ISBN: 9789004364387 9789004364660 9004364668 9004364382 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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In The Riddle of Jael , Peter Scott Brown offers the first history of the Biblical heroine Jael in medieval and Renaissance art. Jael, who betrayed and killed the tyrant Sisera in the Book of Judges by hammering a tent peg through his brain as he slept under her care, was a blessed murderess and an especially fertile moral paradox in the art of the early modern period. Jael's representations offer insights into key religious, intellectual, and social developments in late medieval and early modern society. They reflect the influence on art of exegesis, the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, humanism and moral philosophy, misogyny and the battle of the sexes, the emergence of syphilis, and the Renaissance ideal of the artist.


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Seen from behind : perspectives on the male body and Renaissance art
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ISBN: 9780300236552 0300236557 Year: 2018 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This original book examines the range of meaning that has been attached to the male backside in Renaissance art and culture, the transformation of the base connotation of the image to high art, and the question of homoerotic impulses or implications of admiring male figures from behind. Representations of the male body's behind have often been associated with things obscene, carnivalesque, comical, or villainous. Presenting serious scholarship with a deft hand, 'Seen from Behind' expands our understanding of the motif of the male buttocks in Renaissance art, revealing both continuities and changes in the ways the images convey meaning and have been given meaning.

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