Receptions of antiquity, constructions of gender in European art, 1300-1600

Contents

Cross-dressing in the arena chapel : Giotto's virtue fortitude re-examined / Mary D. Edwards -- The liminal feminine : illuminating Europa in the Ovide Moralisé / K. Sarah-Jane Murray with Ashley A. Simone -- A giant corrupt body : the gendering of Renaissance Roma / Genevieve S. Gessert -- Luca Signorelli's Veturia persuading Coriolanus to spare Rome and viewers in the Palazzo Petrucci, Siena / Stephanie C. Leone -- Queer fragments : Sodoma, the Belvedere torso, and Saint Catherine's head / Timothy B. Smith -- The trouble with Pasiphaë : engendering a myth at the Gonzaga Court / Maria F. Maurer -- Vision, Voluptas, and the poetics of water in Lorenzo Lotto's Venus and Cupid / April Oettinger -- The crone, the witch, and the library : the intersection of classical fantasy with Christian vice during the Italian Renaissance / Patricia Simons -- Picturing rape and revenge in Ovid's myth of Philomela / Hetty E. Joyce -- Figuring Florence : gendered bodies in sixteenth-century personifications and their antique models / Claudia Lazzaro -- Conjugal piety : Creusa in Barocci's Aeneas' flight from Troy / Ian Verstegen -- Ancient idols, lascivious statues, and sixteenth-century viewers in Roman gardens / Katherine M. Bentz.