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Author Maurer, Maria F., author.

Title Gender, space and experience at the Renaissance court : performance and practice at the Palazzo Te / Maria F. Maurer
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits
Series Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
Contents Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- The Palace in Cyberspace: A Note on the Virtual Tour -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The Performative Palace -- 2. Spaces of Ceremony -- 3. The Palace in Time -- 4. The Unbounded Palace -- 5. The Troubled Palace -- Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth -- Index
Summary Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 08, 2019)
Subject Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy) -- History
SUBJECT Palazzo del Te (Mantua, Italy) fast
Subject Architecture -- Human factors -- Italy -- Mantua
Architecture -- Italy -- Mantua -- Psychological aspects
Architecture and society -- Italy -- Mantua
Sex role -- Italy -- Mantua -- History
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Residential.
HOUSE & HOME -- Design & Construction.
ARCHITECTURE -- General.
Architecture and society
Architecture -- Human factors
Architecture -- Psychological aspects
Sex role
Italy -- Mantua
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789048536689
9048536685