Cellini's Perseus and Medusa and the Loggia dei Lanzi : : configurations of the body of state / / by Christine Corretti.
Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa , one of Renaissance Italy’s most complex sculptures, is the subject of this study, which proposes that the statue’s androgynous appearance is paradoxical. Symbolizing the male ruler overcoming a female adversary, the Perseus legitimizes patriarchal power; but...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Art and Material Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 174 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 The Story of Perseus and Medusa, an Interpretation of Its Meaning, and the Topos of Decapitation
- 2 Cellini’s Perseus and Medusa: The Paradigm of Control
- 3 Renaissance Political Theory and Paradoxes of Power
- 4 The Goddess as Other and Same
- 5 The Sexual Symbolism of the Perseus and Medusa
- 6 The Public Face of Justice
- 7 Classical and Grotesque Polities
- 8 Eleonora di Toledo and the Image of the Mother Goddess
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.