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Remembering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence

Allison Mary Levy

出版	Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006-01-01
主題	Art / European
ISBN	07546540449780754654049
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=EaRpIqZR-vIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning. She argues that portraiture could defer memory loss or, at the very least, pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. This book recognizes a socio-cultural anxiety - the fear not merely of death but also of being forgotten - and identifies a set of pictorial, literary and theoretical strategies consequently formulated to ensure memory. To explore this phenomenon, this interdisciplinary but fundamentally art historical project merges early modern visual culture and critical theories of the body.