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Placing the gods -- The studiolo and its histories -- Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self -- Myth and the articulation of gender and space -- Isabella's "cupidity": collecting and literary production -- 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 -- The rise of mythological painting in sixteenth-century Italy. |
