Titian, Colonna, and the Renaissance science of procreation
Subtitle: Equicola's seasons of desire
By: Anthony Colantuono.
Series: Visual culture in early modernity
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780754669623
Subjects: Sex in art; Symbolism in art -- Italy; Arts, Italian -- 16th century; Arts, Renaissance -- Italy; Art and literature -- Italy -- History -- 16th century
Other titles: Equicola's seasons of desire
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola, and the libidinal seasons. Proemium. The libido in winter : Bellini's Feast of the gods; title: The libido in spring : Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne; title: The libido in summer : Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians; title: The libido in autumn : Titian's Feast of Venus; title: Interpreting the Camerino : the bacchanals as procreative pedagogy; title: Colonna's Poliphilus' The science and season of sexual performance. Proemium. Duke Gibaldo's dysfunction : Poliphilus and the diagnosis of love; title: Poliphilus's nightmare and erotic magic : an excursus on the bewitching of the male genitalia; title: Poliphilus's wet dream; title: A Venus in the bedroom; title: Coloring the roses : Colonna, Titian, and the "third Venus"; title: A sacred/profane love : the Dodonian font and Poliphilus's wedding.