May is monster month, so I thought we’d take a break from the pandemic and look at the relationships between gender, monsters and buildings in the Renaissance. I’ll focus on the Hall of the Giants at the Palazzo Te, the subject of my book, Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court: Performance and Practice …
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Women on Top
In my last post I examined the connections between technology and erotica and emerging discourses of art and pornography through the creation of the Modi, a series of racy prints. I argued that early modern conceptions of art were closely tied to the (male) artist’s ability to depict a beautiful, nude female body. In such …
The Renaissance Uncensored 