The cabinet of eros: the studiolo of Isabella d'Este and the rise of Renaissance mythological painting
By: Stephen J. Campbell.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Subjects: 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 -- Italy.; Studiolos -- Italy -- Mantua.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Placing the gods; value: Studiolo and its histories; value: Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self; value: Myth and the articulation of gender and space; value: Isabella's "cupidity": collecting and literary production; value: Paintings; value: Mantegna's mars and venus: poetry, natural history and the origins of art; value: Mantegna's mythic signatures: Pallas and the vices; value: Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Paride da Ceresara, and Perugino's battle of chastity and lasciviousness; value: Lorenzo Costa's coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance Sappho; value: "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments": courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus; value: "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome; value: Rise of mythological painting in sixteenth century Italy.