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Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,669
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Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover): Elizabeth Currie

Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence (Hardcover)

Elizabeth Currie

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Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a source of mockery? Was the graceful courtier virile or effeminate? How could a man dress for court without bankrupting himself? This book explores the whole story of clothing, from the tailor's workshop to spectacular court festivities, to show how the male nobility in one of Italy's main textile production centers used their appearances to project social, sexual, and professional identities. Sixteenth-century male fashion is often associated with swagger and ostentation but this book shows that Florentine clothing reflected manhood at a much deeper level, communicating a very Italian spectrum of male virtues and vices, from honor, courage, and restraint to luxury and excess. Situating dress at the heart of identity formation, Currie traces these codes through an array of sources, including unpublished archival records, surviving garments, portraiture, poetry, and personal correspondence between the Medici and their courtiers. Addressing important themes such as gender, politics, and consumption, Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence sheds fresh light on the sartorial culture of the Florentine court and Italy as a whole.

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Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2016
Authors: Elizabeth Currie
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 978-1-4742-4976-8
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Men's studies
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General
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LSN: 1-4742-4976-0
Barcode: 9781474249768

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