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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811575103321

Autore

Gaylard Susan

Titolo

Hollow men : writing, objects, and public image in Renaissance Italy / / Susan Gaylard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5217-5

0-8232-5218-3

0-8232-5285-X

0-8232-5175-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Classificazione

LIT000000HIS020000SOC032000

Disciplina

850/.9/002

Soggetti

Italian literature - To 1400 - History and criticism

Italian literature - 15th century - History and criticism

Italian language - Early modern, 1500-1700

Art, Renaissance - Italy - History

Masculinity in literature

Masculinity in art

Renaissance - Italy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.