The meanings of nudity in medieval art
By: [editor], Sherry C.M. Lindquist
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781409422846
Subjects: Medieval Art; Nude in art; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Sherry C.M. Lindquist; title: The survival and reception of the classical nude : Venus in the Middle Ages / Jane Long; title: Male nudes and embodied spirituality in Romanesque sculpture / Kirk Ambrose; title: The naked jongleur in the margins : manuscript contexts for social meanings / Elizabeth Moore Hunt; title: A son's gaze on Noah : case or cause of biriliphobia? / Madeline H. Caviness; title: Uncovering the meanings of nudity in the Belles heures of Jean, Duke of Berry / Martha Easton; title: Pubics and privates : body hair in late medieval art / Penny Howell; title: Nudity as natural garment : seeing through Adam and Eve's skin / Linda Seidel; title: Integritas, Proportio, and Claritas : the body in Tuscan representations of baptism,1300-1450 / Véronique Dalmasso; title: Christ bared : problems of viewing and powers of exposing / Corine Schleif; title: Sin or sensuous pleasure? : a little-known bather in a Flemish Book of hours / Diane Wolfthal; title: Reconsidering the nude : northern tradition and Venetian innovation / Paula Nuttall; title: Epilogue / Madeline H. Caviness.