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Eros visible : art, sexuality and antiquity in Renaissance Italy / James Grantham Turner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turner, James, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art, Italian--16th century--Themes, motives.
- Art, Italian.
- Art, Renaissance--Italy--Themes, motives.
- Art, Renaissance.
- Erotic art.
- Sex and art--Italy--History--16th century.
- Sex and art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 pages) : 340 illustrations (some color)
- Other Title:
- Art, sexuality and antiquity in Renaissance Italy
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Focusing on the impact of the erotic revolution that swept through 16th-century Italy, Eros Visible presents a compendious, revisionist account of High Renaissance art. Through close visual analysis of artworks and careful reading of related texts, James Grantham Turner demonstrates the surprisingly close connection between explicitly pornographic art and the canonical works of masters such as Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Full of new discoveries, this volume explores the passionate response to antiquity and how a new sex-positive philosophy not only encouraged an increased accentuation of sensual and erotic themes in art, but influenced the sexual cultures of both the court and the art studio. With an interdisciplinary approach that draws on a wide array of visual and textual erotica, Turner offers the first broad, synthetic history of the classically inspired and unambiguously lascivious sensibilities behind some of the most sublime artistic achievements of the Renaissance"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Profane love
- Chapter 1. Foundations and preconditions : 'Poets and sculptors ancient and modern write and sculpt lascivious things to amuse the mind'
- Chapter 2. Mars and Venus in the net of art : from classical models to the Villa Farnesina
- Chapter 3. Venus, Mars and Vulcan in the high Renaissance
- Chapter 4. The mirror of Venus : Titan and Tintoretto
- Chapter 5. The stain in the marble, or falling in love with the Cnidian Venus
- Chapter 6. 'Double art' and multiple sexualities : La delicatezza del tondo
- Chapter 7. 'Difficult mixtures' : virtuosity and erotic figuration in Marcantonio and Michelangelo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on December 19, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780300279795
- 0300279795
- OCLC:
- 1413371201
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