Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance science of procreation : Equicola's seasons of desire

Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance science of procreation : Equicola's seasons of desire / Anthony Colantuono.

Author/creator	Colantuono, Anthony
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Surrey, Uk., England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2010.
Description	xvii, 316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Sex in art. Symbolism in art--Italy. Arts, Italian--16th century. Arts, Renaissance--Italy. Art and literature--Italy --History --16th century.

Portion of title	Equicola's seasons of desire
Series	Visual culture in early modernity Visual culture in early modernity. ^A783100
Contents	Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola, and the libidinal seasons. Proemium. The libido in winter: Bellini's Feast of the gods -- The libido in spring: Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne -- The libido in summer: Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians -- The libido in autumn: Titian's Feast of Venus -- Interpreting the Camerino: the bacchanals as procreative pedagogy -- Colonna's Poliphilus' The science and season of sexual performance. Proemium. Duke Gibaldo's dysfunction: Poliphilus and the diagnosis of love -- Poliphilus's nightmare and erotic magic: an excursus on the bewitching of the male genitalia -- Poliphilus's wet dream -- A Venus in the bedroom -- Coloring the roses: Colonna, Titian, and the "third Venus" -- A sacred/profane love: the Dodonian font and Poliphilus's wedding.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographacal references (p. [293]-309) and index.
LCCN	2009043764
ISBN	9780754669623 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0754669629 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	NX650.E7 C66 2010	✔ Available	Place Hold