Title: Heaven and the flesh : imagery of desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo /
Authors: Hart, Clive.; Stevenson, Kay Gilliland.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Desire in art; Desire in literature.; Erotica.; Arts, European.; Arts, Renaissance; Arts, Modern Europe.; Arts, Modern Europe.; Erotica history
Contents: Sexuality and ascension -- finding the way -- The woman on top -- Christ, Endymion, Ganymede -- Paradisiacal bosoms -- Imparadised in one another's arms -- Heaven and the flesh -- The body and ascension in the sacred rococo art of southern Germany and Austria -- The assumption and its transformations -- Conclusion -- Jacob's ladder and Keats's Endymion -- Appendix.