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Early modern visual allegory : embodying meaning / edited by Cristelle Baskins, Lisa Rosenthal.

Additional Author: Baskins, Cristelle Louise.

Publisher:Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Description:xv, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:Making allegory. Giotto, de Man, and the allegorical impulse in Michelangelo / Laura Camille Agoston ; The ends of allegory: Winckelmann, Rococo and Volcanic displacement / Christiane Hertel ; Allegories of race: Casta paintings and models for theorizing race / Oscar E. Vázquez -- Allegories of place. Giorgione's Assault: war and rape in Renaissance Venice / Paul H. D. Kaplan ; Shaping civic personification: Pisa Sforzata, Pisa Salvata / Cristelle Baskins ; Political allegories: redesigning Siena's Palio and patron saint during the Fascist regime / D. Medina Lasansky -- Allegory and audience. The devil's hem: allegorical reading in a sixteenth-century illustrated life of St. Benedict / Evelyn Lincoln ; The ideal prince or An allegorical dialogue between the City of Antwerp and the Court of Brussels / Margit Thøfner ; The Bellona factor: political allegories and the conflicting claims of martial imagery / Jane Kromm ; Fauveau's Dame Clémence, or personifying Romanticism / Erika Naginski -- Allegory's as carnal knowledge. Venus's milk and the temptations of allegory in Otto Van Veen's Allegory of temptation / Lisa Rosenthal ; The naked truth? the allegorical frontispiece and woman's ambition in eighteenth-century France / Mary D. Sheriff ; Savage breast/salvaged breast: allegory, colonization, and wet-nursing in Peru, 1532-1825 / Carolyn Dean.

E-Resource:Electronic version: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip078/2007001494.html -- Materials specified: Table of contents only



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Additional Author:
Baskins, Cristelle Louise.
Rosenthal, Lisa, 1954-
Subject:
Allegories.
Symbolism in art.
Art, European.