Hollow Men : : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy /

Hollow Men : : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy / / Susan Gaylard.

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This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdiscipli...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Gaylard, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (372 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • I. MONUMENTS, IMITATION, AND THE NOBLE IDEAL IN EARLY RENAISSANCE ITALY
  • Introduction: Reinventing Nobility? Artifacts and the Monumental Pose from Petrarch to Platina
  • 1. How to Perform Like a Statue: Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and Exemplarity
  • 2. From Castrated Statues to Empty Colossi: Emasculation vs. Monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina
  • II. PRINT MONUMENTS, EXPOSURE, AND STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT
  • 3. Banishing the Hollow Man: Print, Clothing, and Aretino’s Emblems of Truth
  • 4. Heroes with Damp Brains? Image vs. Text in Printed Portrait-Books
  • 5. Silenus Strategies: The Failure of Personal Emblems
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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