Gender, space and experience at the Renaissance court : performance and practice at the Palazzo Te / Maria F. Maurer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maurer, Maria F., author.

Series:

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.

Visual and material culture, 1300-1700

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy)--History.

Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy).

Architecture--Human factors--Italy--Mantua--History.

Architecture.

Sex role--Italy--Mantua--History.

Sex role.

Architecture and society--Italy--Mantua--History.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time. The Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

The Palace in Cyberspace: A Note on the Virtual Tour

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1. The Performative Palace

2. Spaces of Ceremony

3. The Palace in Time

4. The Unbounded Palace

5. The Troubled Palace

Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-69649-X

1-04-079475-0

90-485-3668-5

9781003696490

OCLC:

1108549132