In your face
Subtitle: professional improprieties and the art of being conspicuous in sixteenth-century Italy
By: Douglas Biow.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780804762151; 9780804762168
Subjects: Personality and creative ability -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Artists -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Authors, Italian -- 16th century; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Italy -- Civilization -- 16th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Baldassar Castiglione and the art of being inconspicuously conspicuous; title: Pietro Aretino and the art of conspicuous consumption; title: Michelangelo Buonarroti and the art of conspicuous absorption; title: Benvenuto Cellini and the art of conspicuous production; title: Anton Francesco Doni and the art of conspicuous reproduction.