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Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence
Author: Compton Rebekah
This book examines Venus and her arts of love in the society, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300–1600.
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Publication date: 03-2021
292 p. · 18.3x26 cm · Hardback
292 p. · 18.3x26 cm · Hardback
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In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes ? her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era.
1. Golden Splendor: Visions of Venus; 2. Cultivating Complexions: Cleaning and Coloring the Flesh; 3. Sartorial Seduction: Silk, Embroidery, and Venusian Magic; 4. Green Gardens: Venus' Verdant Virtues; 5. Erotic Anatomy: Fantasy, Sex, and Disease; 6. Maritime Treasures: Venus' Gifts from the Sea; Conclusion: Attendant Pleasures.
Rebekah Compton is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is a recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and a fellow of I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
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