"In Your Face" concentrates on the Renaissance concern with
"self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists
and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art.
In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where
moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be
essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and
to underplay their conspicuousness at once. The heroes (or
anti-heroes) of this book--Michelangelo Buonarroti, Benvenuto
Cellini, Pietro Aretino, and Anton Francesco Doni--violated norms
of decorum by promoting themselves aggressively and by using
writing or artworks to memorialize their assertiveness and
intractable delight in parading themselves as transgressive and
insubordinate on a grand scale. Focusing on these sorts of writers
and visual artists, Biow constructs a version of the Italian
Renaissance that is neither the elegant one of Castiglione's and
Vasari's courts--so recently favored in scholarly accounts--nor the
dark, conspiratorial one of Niccolo Machiavelli's and Francesco
Guicciardini's princely states.
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