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Images of Venus in Epithalamic Art of the Italian Renaissance, 1460-1540 [microform]

出版	Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Western Ontario, 1999
ISBN	06124223489780612422346
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=49LnmgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The mythologies of Venus were often appropriated in works of art commissioned to commemorate marriages in Renaissance Italy. This thesis will follow the course of direction of Venus in art celebrating marriage from fifteenth-century furniture painting to the easel paintings of the first half of the sixteenth century. With the exception of a few ceiling and wall frescoes in palaces, these marriage paintings were situated in the master bedroom. Venus' first appearance was on the underside of cassoni lids, the exteriors of which were decorated with scenes devised to provide moral and civic exemplars for the married couple. By the end of the century, she began to appear in easel paintings as well, which were embellished with other symbols of marriage, such as references to classical epithalamic poetry. Like the earlier artworks, the sixteenth-century paintings were also intended for the married couple to contemplate, but more specifically to encourage the procreative process. issues in marriage and portraiture are also examined, establishing and scrutinizing the cultural climate in which these paintings were created and received. Lastly, this thesis will offer a new perspective on how to interpret certain examples of epithalamic paintings as portraits of the bride in the guise of Venus, belonging to the often under-acknowledged genre of composite portraiture.