Benvenuto Cellini : sexuality, masculinity, and artistic identity in Renaissance Italy / Margaret A. Gallucci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallucci, Margaret A.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571--Criticism and interpretation.

Cellini, Benvenuto.

Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571.

Artists as authors--Italy.

Artists as authors.

Renaissance--Italy.

Renaissance.

Criticism and interpretation.

Italy.

Physical Description:

xvi, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

Celebrated goldsmith and sculptor of the Italian Renaissance, Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) fits the conventional image of a Renaissance man: a skillful virtuoso and courtier; an artist who worked in marble, bronze, and gold; and a writer and poet. However, in his life and literary oeuvre the notorious artist, rogue, and sodomite aligned himself with the transgressive and oppositional voices of his day. This book, the first biographical study of Cellini available in English, uses the methodologies of New Historicism, social history, and gender and sexuality studies to place the artist and his cultural production in the context of contemporary discourses about sexuality, law, magic, masculinity, and honor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-207) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

1403961077

OCLC:

51460545