| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 280 pages) : color illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sweet Persuasions -- Framing Venus -- Venus in Fourteenth-Century Florence -- Book Organization -- Notes -- One Golden Splendor: Visions of Venus -- A Golden Mirage -- Scintillating Rays -- Bright Visions -- Notes -- Two Cultivating Complexions: Cleaning and Coloring the Flesh -- Generating and Cultivating Flesh -- Painting Flesh -- Reproducing Flesh -- Notes -- Three Sartorial Seduction: Silk, Embroidery, and Venusian Magic -- Location and Patronage -- Astral Magic -- A White Dress: Incandescent Transparency -- Gold Embroidery: The Cestus and Its Charms -- Rose Brocade: Luxurious Love -- Notes -- Four Green Gardens: Venus' Verdant Virtues -- Visual Poetics -- Sensorial Medicine -- Green Places -- Green Geography -- Botticelli's Verdant Techniques -- Savonarola's Winter -- Notes -- Five Erotic Anatomy: Fantasy, Sex, and Disease -- The Prick of Desire -- The Passions of Love -- Sex and the Satyr -- Notes -- Six Maritime Treasures: Venus' Gifts from the Sea -- The Villa of Castello -- Notes -- Conclusion: Attendant Pleasures -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
"In this volume, Rebekah Compton offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300 to 1600. Organized chronologically, each of the six chapters investigates one of the goddess's alluring attributes - her golden splendor, rosy-hued complexion, enchanting fashions, green gardens, erotic anatomy, and gifts from the sea. By examining these attributes in the context of the visual arts, Compton uncovers an array of materials and techniques employed by artists, patrons, rulers, and lovers to manifest Venusian virtues. Her book explores technical art history in the context of love's protean iconography, showing how different discourses and disciplines can interact in the creation and reception of art. Venus and the Arts of Love offers new insights on sight, seduction, and desire, as well as concepts of gender, sexuality, and viewership from both male and female perspectives in the early modern era"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 12, 2021) |
| Subject |
Venus (Roman deity) -- Art
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| SUBJECT |
Venus (Roman deity) fast |
| Subject |
Art, Italian -- Italy -- Florence -- Themes, motives
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Florence -- Themes, motives
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Art and society -- Italy -- Florence -- History
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Art and society
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Art, Italian -- Themes, motives
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Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives
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Italy -- Florence
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| Genre/Form |
Art
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021005478 |
| ISBN |
9781108913393 |
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1108913393 |
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9781108912563 |
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1108912567 |
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