The cabinet of eros: the studiolo of Isabella d'Este and the rise of Renaissance mythological painting /
Stephen Campbell.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2006, c2004.
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| Notes: | Includes appendices - Appendix I: The library of the Studiolo; Appendix II: Digest of the correspondance concerning the paintings commissioned for the Studiolo in the Castello (1496-1515) by Clifford M. Brown. Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-393) and index. Physical description: viii, 402 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0300117531 |
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Placing the gods
Part I: The studiolo and its histories
1. The Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self
2. Myth and the articulation of gender and space
2. Isabella's "Cupidity": collecting and literary production
Part II: Paintings
4. Mantegna's Mars and Venus: poetry, natural history and the origins of art
5. Mantegna's mythic signatures: Pallas and the Vices
6. Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara
7. Lorenzo Costa's coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance Sappho
8. "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments": courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus
9. "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome
10. Conclusion: The rise of mythological painting in sixteenth century Italy.
Introduction: Placing the gods
Part I: The studiolo and its histories
1. The Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self
2. Myth and the articulation of gender and space
2. Isabella's "Cupidity": collecting and literary production
Part II: Paintings
4. Mantegna's Mars and Venus: poetry, natural history and the origins of art
5. Mantegna's mythic signatures: Pallas and the Vices
6. Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara
7. Lorenzo Costa's coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance Sappho
8. "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments": courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus
9. "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome
10. Conclusion: The rise of mythological painting in sixteenth century Italy.