Lesbian (in)visibility in Italian Renaissance culture : Diana and other cases of donna con donna

Author

Simons, Patricia

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Gay and lesbian studies in art history

Author (monograph)

Davis, Whitney (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Gay and lesbian studies in art history. 1994, 81-122, 8 ill.

Publisher

Haworth, New York (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

After an overview of Renaissance documents treating donna con donna relations which examines the potentially positive effects of condemnation and silence, the paper focuses on Diana, the goddess of chastity, who bathed with her nymphs as an exemplar of female bodies preserved for heterosexual, reproductive pleasures. Yet the self-sufficiency and bodily contact sometimes represented in images of this secluded all-female gathering might suggest "deviant" responses from their viewers.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Italy
• Homosexuality
• Lesbianism
• Italy
• Renaissance
• Diana
• Iconography
• 1400-1600
• Art

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Italie
• Homosexualité
• Lesbianisme
• Italie
• Renaissance
• Diane
• Iconographie
• 1400-1600
• Art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950701-00318607

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