Re-Membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture |
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| Author:
| Levy, Allison |
| Series title: | Women and Gender in the Early Modern World Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7546-5404-9 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2006 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $231.00 |
Book Description:
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This book nuances our understanding of commemorative portraiture in early modern Florence. The author argues that male and female portraiture, complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning, could pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. Merging early modern visual culture and c
This book nuances our understanding of commemorative portraiture in early modern Florence. The author argues that male and female portraiture, complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning, could pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. Merging early modern visual culture and c