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Marital Bed

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Description: Marital Bed
TitleMarital Bed
Creator nameMemmo di Filippuccio
Creator name (description)Attributed to Memo di Filippuccio
Creator nationality/cultureItalian
Creator rolePainter
Creation datec. 1305–1315
Object typePainting
MaterialsFresco
LocationCommunal Palace, San Gimignano, Italy
SubjectsBeds in artMural painting and decoration, Medieval--ItalySeduction in art
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Chapter 3. The Chamber: Stories to Delight and Nourish the Body
C. Jean Campbell
Description: The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano, 1290–1320
The Game of Courting and the Art of the Commune of San Gimignano, 1290–1320
CHARLES SINGLETON once described the living form of a work of art as the product of the tension between its private and public meanings: the private meaning being that dimension...
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C. Jean Campbell
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Copyright© 1997 by Princeton University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.107-190
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00352.4
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Chapter subject tags:Mural painting and decoration, Medieval--ItalyPalazzo comunale (San Gimignano, Italy)Erotic art--ItalyMemmo di Filippuccio, active 1294-1324
1. Nakedness in Renaissance Italy
Jill Burke
Description: The Italian Renaissance Nude
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...
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Jill Burke
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2018 Jill Burke
Related print edition pages: pp.25-65
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00310.2
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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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