The cabinet of eros
Subtitle: Renaissance mythological painting and the studiolo of Isabella d'Este
By: Stephen Campbell
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
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 (p. [377]-393) and index
Table of contents: title: Placing the gods; title: The studiolo and its histories; title: Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self; title: Myth and the articulation of gender and space; title: Isabella's "cupidity": collecting and literary production; title: The paintings; title: Mantegna's mars and venus: poetry, natural history and the origins of art; title: Mantegna's mythic signatures: Pallas and the vices; title: Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara; title: Lorenzo Costa's coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance of Sappho; title: "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments": courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus; title: "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome; title: The rise of mythological painting in sixteenth-century Italy