The Italian Renaissance nude / Jill Burke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burke, Jill, 1971- author.

Contributor:

Yale University Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Italian.

Art, Renaissance--Italy.

Art, Renaissance.

Nude in art.

Italy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : 120 illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018.

Summary:

"The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance nude, this lively study subverts the idea that the nude in this period was a triumph of classical revival. Looking again at familiar (even overly familiar) images by artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian, this book investigates the nude as a tool of colonialism and conquest, as a means of asserting the superiority of men to women, and of naturalizing power differentials by entrenching them in a fixed set of ideas about the body and its representation. Jill Burke uses new research on Renaissance sexual practices, material culture, and the history of medicine to contextualize the era's fascination with nakedness and the body in both art and life. The Italian Renaissance Nude invites readers to consider these celebrated nudes from beyond an aesthetic perspective-to consider why they were painted, whose gaze the images were created for, and how these artworks were used"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Introduction

Nakedness in Renaissance Italy

Nudity, art, and the viewer

The perfect body: masculinity, creativity, divinity, and the nude

Making naked women beautiful

Mythological nudes and other masculine diversions

Afterword

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Credits.

Notes:

Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on June 21, 2022).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-230) and index.

ISBN:

9780300269727

0300269722

OCLC:

1331439296