Making the Renaissance Man
Masculinity in the Courts of Renaissance Italy
Seiten
2023
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-785-8 (ISBN)
Reaktion Books (Verlag)
978-1-78914-785-8 (ISBN)
An investigation of representations and ideals of manhood in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy.
Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they seduced mistresses, flaunted splendour in lavish rituals of knighting and demonstrated prowess through the hunt, in ostentatious performances of masculinity and rule. Hardly frivolous pastimes, these activities were essential displays of privilege and virility; indeed, violence underlay the cultural veneer of the Italian Renaissance. Timothy McCall investigates representations and ideals of manhood and provides a historically grounded and gorgeously illustrated account of how male identity and sexuality proclaimed power, in a century crucial to the formation of early modern Europe.
Making the Renaissance Man explores the images, objects and experiences that fashioned men and masculinity in the courts of fifteenth-century Italy. Across the peninsula, Italian princes fought each other in fierce battles and spectacular jousts; they seduced mistresses, flaunted splendour in lavish rituals of knighting and demonstrated prowess through the hunt, in ostentatious performances of masculinity and rule. Hardly frivolous pastimes, these activities were essential displays of privilege and virility; indeed, violence underlay the cultural veneer of the Italian Renaissance. Timothy McCall investigates representations and ideals of manhood and provides a historically grounded and gorgeously illustrated account of how male identity and sexuality proclaimed power, in a century crucial to the formation of early modern Europe.
Timothy McCall is Associate Professor of Art History at Villanova University, Philadelphia. He is the co-editor of Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe (2013) and the author of Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy (2022).
INTRODUCTION: Making Renaissance Men
CHAPTER 1: Chivalry and the Fashioning of Courtly Masculinity
CHAPTER 2: Aristocratic Animals and Men at Court
CHAPTER 3: Courtly Mistresses: Representation and Power
CHAPTER 4: The Girl with an Ermine Between Men: Cecilia Gallerani, Leonardo da
Vinci and Ludovico Sforza
CHAPTER 5: Borso d'Este, Courtly Masculinity and the History of Lordly Sexuality
REFERENCES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.09.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 106 illustrations, 98 in colour |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78914-785-9 / 1789147859 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78914-785-8 / 9781789147858 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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