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Re-membering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture
By Allison Levy
Copyright 2006
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
346 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Disjecta Membra. Part I The Anatomy of Mourning: Mnemonic v(o)ices; The widow's cleavage. Part II The Melancholy of Anatomy: The death of the fathers; Phantom limbs; Afterword; The big stiff; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Allison Levy
' ...Strikingly original ... breaks new ground through its remarkably original observations. Without doubt this provocative book makes a major contribution to the fields of gender, art history, history, literature, and disability studies.' Diane Wolfthal, author of Images of Rape and Professor of Art History, Arizona State University
