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Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence - Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture (Paperback)
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Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence - Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture (Paperback)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have
understood the obvious connection between portraiture and
commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our
understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be
complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and
pre-mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer
memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject
against his own potentially unmourned death. This book recognizes a
socio-cultural anxiety - the fear not merely of death but also of
being forgotten - and identifies a set of pictorial, literary and
theoretical strategies consequently formulated to ensure memory. To
explore this phenomenon, this interdisciplinary but fundamentally
art historical project merges early modern visual culture and
critical theories of the body. The author examines an extensive
selection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century male and female
portraits, primarily associated with the Medici family, circle and
court, in and against both historical writings and contemporary
discourses, including literary and cultural theory, psychoanalysis,
feminism and gender studies, and critical theories of race and
disability. Re-membering Masculinity generates new ideas about both
male and female portraiture in early modern Florence, raises even
more questions about the experiences and representations of
widowhood and mourning, and re-configures our understanding of
masculinity - from the early modern male body to 'Renaissance Man'
to postmodern manhood.
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