RE-MEMBERING MASCULINITY IN EARLY MODERN FLORENCE: WIDOWED BODIES, MOURNING AND PORTRAITURE.

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"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." "Re-membering Masculinity generates new ideas about both male and female portraiture in early modern Florence, raises even more questions about the experiences and representations of widowhood and mourning, and re-configures our understanding of masculinity - from the early modern male body to 'Renaissance Man' to postmodern manhood."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Portrait painting,  Death in art,  Art, renaissance,  Italian Portrait painting,  Renaissance Portrait painting,  Memory in art,  Masculinity in art,  Portraits,  Peinture de portraits italienne,  Peinture de portraits de la Renaissance,  Mort dans l'art,  Masculinité dans l'art,  ART / Subjects & Themes / General