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• Title:The Italian Renaissance nude / Jill Burke.
  
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• Author/Creator:Burke, Jill, 1971- author.
  
• Published/Created:New Haven, CT : Yale University Pres, 2018.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7572 .B87 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 Missing - 12-12-2022
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Nude in art.
  Art, Renaissance--Italy.
  Art, Italian.
  
• Genre/Form:Illustrated works.
  
• Description:240 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0300201567 hardcover
  9780300201567 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. One Nakedness in Renaissance Italy
  ch. Two Nudity, Art, and the Viewer
  ch. Three Perfect Body: Masculinity, Creativity, Divinity, and the Nude
  ch. Four Making Naked Women Beautiful
  ch. Five Mythological Nudes and Other Masculine Diversions.