Venus and the Arts of Love in Renaissance Florence

Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300-1600. In the course of deconstructing Venus's trajectory, this book critically examines the materials and techniques that artists employed to fulfill and even enhance the goddess's iconographic demands.

List of contents

1. Golden Splendor: Visions of Venus; 2. Cultivating Complexions: Cleaning and Coloring the Flesh; 3. Sartorial Seduction: Silk, Embroidery, and Venusian Magic; 4. Green Gardens: Venus' Verdant Virtues; 5. Erotic Anatomy: Fantasy, Sex, and Disease; 6. Maritime Treasures: Venus' Gifts from the Sea; Conclusion: Attendant Pleasures.

About the author

Rebekah Compton is Associate Professor of Renaissance and Baroque Art History at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. She is a recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at Columbia University and a fellow of I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Summary

Venus and the Arts of Love offers the first survey of Venus in the art, culture, and governance of Florence from 1300–1600. In the course of deconstructing Venus's trajectory, this book critically examines the materials and techniques that artists employed to fulfill and even enhance the goddess's iconographic demands.

Product details

• Authors: Rebekah Compton, Rebekah (College of Charleston Compton, Compton Rebekah Compton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108842914
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84291-4
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; European History, ART / General, Italy, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Renaissance art, Renaissance style, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards