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The Italian Renaissance Nude (Hardcover)
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The Italian Renaissance Nude (Hardcover)
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The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the
Italian Renaissance nude, this lively study subverts the idea that
the nude in this period was a triumph of classical revival. Looking
again at familiar (even overly familiar) images by artists such as
Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian, this book
investigates the nude as a tool of colonialism and conquest, as a
means of asserting the superiority of men to women, and of
naturalizing power differentials by entrenching them in a fixed set
of ideas about the body and its representation. Jill Burke uses new
research on Renaissance sexual practices, material culture, and the
history of medicine to contextualize the era's fascination with
nakedness and the body in both art and life. The Italian
Renaissance Nude invites readers to consider these celebrated nudes
from beyond an aesthetic perspective-to consider why they were
painted, whose gaze the images were created for, and how these
artworks were used.
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