Hollow Men : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy / Susan Gaylard.
2013
PQ4075 .G375 2013
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Title
Hollow Men : Writing, Objects, and Public Image in Renaissance Italy / Susan Gaylard.
Author
Gaylard, Susan, author.
ISBN
9780823252183
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (372 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1515/9780823252183 doi
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PQ4075 .G375 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
850/.9/002
Summary
This book relates developments in the visual arts and printing to humanist theories of literary and bodily imitation, bringing together fifteenth- and sixteenth-century frescoes, statues, coins, letters, dialogues, epic poems, personal emblems, and printed collections of portraits. Its interdisciplinary analyses show that Renaissance theories of emulating classical heroes generated a deep skepticism about self-presentation, ultimately contributing to a new awareness of representation as representation.Hollow Men shows that the Renaissance questioning of "interiority" derived from a visual ideal, the monument that was the basis of teachings about imitation. In fact, the decline of exemplary pedagogy and the emergence of modern masculine subjectivity were well underway in the mid-fifteenth century, and these changes were hastened by the rapid development of the printed image.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
I. MONUMENTS, IMITATION, AND THE NOBLE IDEAL IN EARLY RENAISSANCE ITALY
Introduction: Reinventing Nobility? Artifacts and the Monumental Pose from Petrarch to Platina
1. How to Perform Like a Statue: Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and Exemplarity
2. From Castrated Statues to Empty Colossi: Emasculation vs. Monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina
II. PRINT MONUMENTS, EXPOSURE, AND STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT
3. Banishing the Hollow Man: Print, Clothing, and Aretino's Emblems of Truth
4. Heroes with Damp Brains? Image vs. Text in Printed Portrait-Books
5. Silenus Strategies: The Failure of Personal Emblems
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
I. MONUMENTS, IMITATION, AND THE NOBLE IDEAL IN EARLY RENAISSANCE ITALY
Introduction: Reinventing Nobility? Artifacts and the Monumental Pose from Petrarch to Platina
1. How to Perform Like a Statue: Ghirlandaio, Pontano, and Exemplarity
2. From Castrated Statues to Empty Colossi: Emasculation vs. Monumentality in Bembo, Castiglione, and the Sala Paolina
II. PRINT MONUMENTS, EXPOSURE, AND STRATEGIES OF CONCEALMENT
3. Banishing the Hollow Man: Print, Clothing, and Aretino's Emblems of Truth
4. Heroes with Damp Brains? Image vs. Text in Printed Portrait-Books
5. Silenus Strategies: The Failure of Personal Emblems
Afterword
Notes
Works Cited
Index