Engaging Symbols
Subtitle: Gender, Politics, and Public Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: June 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780300092127
Subjects: Cultural studies; Early Renaissance (c 1400-1500); European history: c 500 to c 1500; Gender Studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; c 1000 CE to c 1500; 15th-16th Century Art; Sex Roles (Sociological Aspects); Art & Art Instruction; Art; Italy; European; Art / History / European; 15th century; Art, Italian; Florence; Gender identity in art
Description: "During the fifteenth century, Florence emerged as one of Europe's most important city-states. This book investigates the intersection of art, politics, and gender in the public sphere of Florence at this time. Adrian W. B. Randolph identifies a pivotal moment in the history of public art when Florentines visually encoded political and social relations within gendered categories.

Randolph shows how "engaging" political symbols were grounded in a revolutionary way in amorous discourses that drew on metaphors of affection, desire, courtship, betrothal, marriage, homo- and hetero-eroticism, and procreation."--BOOK JACKET.