The cabinet of Eros : Renaissance mythological painting and the studiolo of Isabella d'Este / Stephen Campbell.
Language: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006. Description: viii, 402 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: 0300117531Subject(s): Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539 | Palazzo ducale (Mantua, Italy). Studiolo | Mythology, Classical, in art | Painting, Italian | Painting, Renaissance -- ItalyLOC classification: ND1422.I83 C36 2006| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Books | Vitali Hakko Kreatif Endüstriler Kütüphanesi | ND1422.I83 C36 2006 | Not for loan | 007265 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-393) and index.
Introduction. Placing the gods -- Pt. 1. The studiolo and its histories. The study, the collection, and the Renaissance self -- Myth and the articulation of gender and space -- Isabella's "cupidity" : collecting and literary production -- Pt. 2. The paintings. Mantegna's Mars and Venus : poetry, natural history, and the origins of art -- Mantegna's mythic signatures : Pallas and the vices -- Tanta amorosa impresa : Isabella, Perugino, and Paride da Ceresara -- Lorenzo Costa's coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance of Sappho -- "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments" : courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus -- "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome -- Conclusion. The rise of mythological painting in sixteenth-century Italy.