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Description: The Italian Renaissance Nude
BOOKThe Italian Renaissance Nude
Jill Burke
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22537
The first scholarly monograph to focus on the inception of the Italian Renaissance nude, this insightful study subverts the idea that the nude in this period was a triumph of classical revival. Looking again at familiar (even overly familiar) images by artists such as Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Titian, this book investigates the nude as a tool of colonialism and conquest, as a means of asserting the superiority of men to women, and of naturalizing power differentials by entrenching them in a fixed set of ideas about the body and its representation. Jill Burke uses new research on Renaissance sexual practices, material culture, and the history of medicine to contextualize the era’s fascination with nakedness and the body in both art and life. The Italian Renaissance Nude invites readers to consider these celebrated nudes from beyond an aesthetic perspective—to consider why they were painted, whose gaze the images were created for, and how these artworks were used.

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Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Print publication date June 2018 (out of print)
Print ISBN 9780300201567
EISBN 9780300269727
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Illustrations 120
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List of illustrations

  • Night
  • Apollo Belvedere
  • Medici Venus (Venus pudica of the Cnidian type)
  • The Clothing of Adam and Eve, detail
  • The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
  • Adam and Eve
  • The Labors of Adam and Eve
  • Adam and Eve with Children
  • Early Man
  • Early Mankind
  • Adam
  • Columbus's First Voyage to the New World
  • Natives of Guinea
  • Battle of the Nudes
  • Standing Cup with Americans and Africans, detail of base
  • The Baths at Plombières (Balneum Plummer)
  • The Clothing of the Naked
  • Burial of the Wood, detail
  • Allegory of March, detail
  • Resurrection of the Boy on Piazza Santa Trinita, detail
  • Meeting and Departure of Betrothed Couple
  • The Tanners Guild
  • The Chain Map, detail
  • Leander Swimming Across the Hellespont
  • The Renunciation of Worldly Goods, detail
  • Dead Christ with Angels
  • Risen Christ
  • April, detail of the Palio di San Giorgio
  • Marital Bed
  • Smock
  • Allegory on Copulation (verso)
  • Flora
  • Marriage Chest with Female Nude
  • Venus and Mars
  • Sleeping Venus
  • Game of Civettino, detail
  • Wine Spirit
  • David with the Head of Goliath
  • David with the Head of Goliath, view from behind
  • Sacrifice of Isaac
  • Saint John in the Desert
  • Security, detail from Allegory of Good and Bad Government
  • Temperance
  • Hercules
  • David
  • Belvedere Torso
  • Three Graces
  • The Horse-Tamers (Dioscuri)
  • Horse-Tamers
  • Medal of Cecilia Gonzaga (reverse)
  • Medal of Leonello d'Este (reverse)
  • Phaeton Loggia
  • Three Graces
  • Spinario (Thorn-Puller)
  • Sacrifice of Isaac
  • Last Testament of Moses, detail
  • Baptism of Christ, detail
  • Figures in a Landscape: Two Nude Youths
  • Baptism of Christ
  • Virgin and Child
  • Madonna with Child
  • Holy Family, known as the Doni Tondo
  • Spinario (boy pulling a thorn from his foot)
  • The Battle of Cascina
  • Bather
  • Studies for Haman
  • Three Studies after a Near-Naked Model
  • Three Studies after a Near-Naked Model
  • Two Male Nudes, One in Position of Spinario
  • Standing Youth with Hands Behind His Back, and a Seated Youth Reading (recto), detail
  • Study of Man with One Arm Raised
  • A nude youth as St. John the Baptist
  • Portrait of a Young Man
  • Plate 99 from Animal Locomotion
  • Studies after Near-Naked Men
  • Vitruvian Man
  • Vitruvian Man
  • Vitruvian Man
  • Vitruvian Man
  • Birth of Venus
  • Fragments from I modi
  • Overall View of the Sistine Chapel
  • Drunkenness of Noah and surrounding ignudi
  • Creation of Adam
  • Triumph of Galatea
  • Venus of Urbino
  • Laura
  • Libyan Sibyl
  • Study for the Libyan Sibyl
  • La Fornarina
  • Study of the Figure of Venus
  • Simonetta Vespucci
  • Reclining Female Nude in the Guise of Venus
  • Female Nude in the Guise of Venus
  • Portrait Drawing of a Young Woman
  • Prudence
  • Drawing of a Naked Woman in the Guise of Venus
  • Martyrdom of St. Agatha
  • Portrait of a Young Woman
  • Study of Naked Young Woman for the Entombment
  • The Miserable End of Signora Anzola
  • Young Woman at her Toilette
  • Venus Anadyomene
  • Woman in a Blue Dress (La Bella)
  • Woman in a Fur Coat
  • Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche
  • Rustic Banquet
  • The Pastoral Concert
  • The Tempest
  • Sacred and Profane Love
  • Kingdom of Pan
  • Nymph of the Fountain
  • Loggia of Psyche
  • Feast of the Gods
  • Feast of the Gods
  • Bacchanal of the Andrians
  • Worship of Venus
  • Bacchus and Ariadne
  • Federico Gonzaga, 1st Duke of Mantua
  • Jupiter and Io
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Jill Burke
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The Italian Renaissance Nude
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Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22538
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Introduction
Jill Burke
Description: The Italian Renaissance Nude
The Italian Renaissance Nude
Who cares about the Italian Renaissance nude? A subject more redolent of an old-fashioned type of art history would be hard to find. For many people it may bring to mind those...
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.7-23
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.1
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22539
Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalySculpture, Classical--AppreciationNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Sculpture, Renaissance--Italy

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1. Nakedness in Renaissance Italy
Jill Burke
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The Italian Renaissance Nude
To understand why the nude became such a privileged form in the visual arts from the Renaissance onward, it is necessary to explore what contemporary people understood by nakedness. As we shall see in the chapters that...
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.25-65
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.2
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22540
Chapter subject tags:Bible stories, English--GenesisNudity--Religious aspects--16th centuryNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceClassical literature--Appreciation--ItalyItaly--Social conditions--RenaissanceBathhouses--ItalyMarriage customs and rites, RenaissancePainting, Renaissance--Italy

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2. Nudity, Art, and the Viewer
Jill Burke
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The Italian Renaissance Nude
On March 15, 1523 the Venetian humanist Girolamo Negri wrote to his friend, the art collector and writer Marcantonio Michiel, about the visit of the new Pope Adrian VI to the Belvedere gardens in Rome....
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.67-91
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.3
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22541
Chapter subject tags:Sculpture, Classical--AppreciationArt, Renaissance--ItalyNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceSin, original, in artAllegories, RenaissanceAllegories, Renaissance--Italy

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3. The Perfect Body: Masculinity, Creativity, Divinity, and the Nude
Jill Burke
Description: The Italian Renaissance Nude
The Italian Renaissance Nude
Michelangelo’s study for the figure of Haman on the Sistine Chapel ceiling is one of the most celebrated Renaissance drawings of a nude (fig. 3.1). This naked male figure hurls himself forward, his weight resting on his sketchily depicted right foot, his body...
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.93-123
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.4
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22542
Chapter subject tags:Masculine beauty (Aesthetics)Cappella Sistina (Vatican Palace, Vatican City)Nude in art--Italy--RenaissanceMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Artists' preparatory studies--ItalyLeonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519NeoplatonismPainting, Renaissance--Italy

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4. Making Naked Women Beautiful
Jill Burke
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The Italian Renaissance Nude
More than a hundred years come between Cennini’s dismissal of women as unworthy of study to form the “perfect body” and the famous text ascribed to Raphael about generating his image of Galatea (fig. 4.1) through an “Idea.” The two texts betray contrasting attitudes toward the artistic worth of female beauty that encapsulate a...
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.125-157
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.5
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22543
Chapter subject tags:Venus deities in artArt, Renaissance--ItalyNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceAnatomy, Artistic--RenaissanceCastiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529Androgyny (Psychology) in art--RenaissanceMichelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564Raphael, 1483-1520Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Renaissance

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5. Mythological Nudes and Other Masculine Diversions
Jill Burke
Description: The Italian Renaissance Nude
The Italian Renaissance Nude
Ranged around the walls of the Hall of Psyche in the Palazzo Te in Mantua, framing images of frolicking naked gods, goddesses, and nymphs, is an...
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.159-182
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.6
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22544
Chapter subject tags:Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1500-1540Mythology, Classical, in artNude in art--Italy--RenaissanceRaphael, 1483-1520European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600Villa della FarnesinaPainting, Renaissance--Italy

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Afterword
Jill Burke
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The Italian Renaissance Nude
Michelangelo’s Night (fig. 0.1) begged to be left sleeping rather than witness the corruption of the world around her.This loose...
Author
Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.185-188
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.7
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22545
Chapter subject tags:Painting, Renaissance--ItalyNude in art--Italy--Renaissance

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The Italian Renaissance Nude
~It is not always easy being a mother (on occasion single-handed) and writing a book; it involves doing two hugely rewarding but incredibly daunting things at the same time. I’ve found both are better with help. My many scholarly debts of gratitude are mainly acknowledged in the text itself. I would like to acknowledge others here.
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Jill Burke
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