The cabinet of Eros : Renaissance mythological painting and the studiolo of Isabella d'Este /
Campbell, Stephen J.(Stephen John),1963-
New Haven : Yale University Press,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-393) and index.
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.
Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539.
Palazzo ducale (Mantua, Italy). Studiolo.
Mythology, Classical, in art.
Painting, Italian.
Painting, Renaissance
Studiolos