Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court : : Performance and Practice at the Palazzo Te / / Maria Maurer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Maurer, Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300 –1700 ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.) :; 16 color plates, 50 halftones

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- The Palace in Cyberspace: A Note on the Virtual Tour -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Performative Palace -- 2. Spaces of Ceremony -- 3. The Palace in Time -- 4. The Unbounded Palace -- 5. The Troubled Palace -- Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth -- Index