Taking positions : on the erotic in Renaissance culture

Author

Talvacchia, Bette

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill. (some col.), sel. bibliogr., index ; 302 p., [4] p. of pl. ; 1999

ISBN

0-691-02632-7

Publisher

Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Studies the representations of sexuality in Renaissance Italy and France, focussing on Giulio Romano's I Modi (ca.1524, and their later coupling with Aretino's Sonetti lussuriosi), but also considering The Loves of the Gods (engraved by Jacopo Caraglio) and the illustrations in Charles Estienne's De dissectione partium corporis humani (1545).

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Pictorial arts -- Prints and illustration -- Italy
• Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi), 1492/99-1546
• Prints
• Italy
• 1500-1600
• Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556
• Sonetti lussuriosi
• Caraglio, Giovanni Jacopo, ca.1505-1565
• Estienne, Charles, 1504-1564
• De dissectione partium corporis humani
• Eroticism
• Pornography
• France
• Medical books

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Estampe et illustration -- Italie
• Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi), 1492/99-1546
• Estampe
• Italie
• 1500-1600
• Aretino, Pietro, 1492-1556
• Sonetti lussuriosi
• Caraglio, Giovanni Jacopo, v.1505-1565
• Estienne, Charles, 1504-1564
• De dissectione partium corporis humani
• Erotisme
• Pornographie
• France
• Livre de médecine

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00207209

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