Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography

Studies on gender and sexuality have proliferated in the last decades, covering a wide spectrum of disciplines. This collection of essays offers a metanarrative of sexuality as it has been recently embedded in the art historical discourse of the European Renaissance. It revisits 'canonical' forms of visual culture, such as painting, sculpture and a number of emblematic manuscripts. The contributors focus on one image--either actual or thematic--and examine it against its historiographic assumptions. Through the use of interdisciplinary approaches, the essays propose to unmask the ideology(ies) of representation of sexuality and suggest a richer image of the ever-shifting identities of gender. The collection focuses on the Italian Renaissance, but also includes case studies from Germany and France.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036743282X
• ISBN13: 9780367432829
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"