In your face : professional improprieties and the art of being conspicuous in sixteenth-century Italy
Biow, DouglasAuthor
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2010.
This study concentrates on the Renaissance concern with 'self-fashioning' by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and to underplay their conspicuousness at once.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This study concentrates on the Renaissance concern with 'self-fashioning' by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and to underplay their conspicuousness at once.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Personality and creative ability
Artists
Authors, Italian
Eccentrics and eccentricities
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Italy