| Description |
xx, 354 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Sherry C.M. Lindquist -- The survival and reception of the classical nude : Venus in the Middle Ages / Jane Long -- Male nudes and embodied spirituality in Romanesque sculpture / Kirk Ambrose -- The naked jongleur in the margins : manuscript contexts for social meanings / Elizabeth Moore Hunt -- A son's gaze on Noah : case or cause of biriliphobia? / Madeline H. Caviness -- Uncovering the meanings of nudity in the Belles heures of Jean, Duke of Berry / Martha Easton -- Pubics and privates : body hair in late medieval art / Penny Howell -- Nudity as natural garment : seeing through Adam and Eve's skin / Linda Seidel -- Integritas, Proportio, and Claritas : the body in Tuscan representations of baptism,1300-1450 / Véronique Dalmasso -- Christ bared : problems of viewing and powers of exposing / Corine Schleif -- Sin or sensuous pleasure? : a little-known bather in a Flemish Book of hours / Diane Wolfthal -- Reconsidering the nude : northern tradition and Venetian innovation / Paula Nuttall -- Epilogue / Madeline H. Caviness |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Subject |
Nude in art.
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Art, Medieval -- Themes, motives.
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| Author |
Lindquist, Sherry C. M., 1964-
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| LC no. |
2011014844 |
| ISBN |
9781409422846 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1409422844 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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