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The meanings of nudity in medieval art


Contents

Introduction / Sherry C.M. Lindquist -- The survival and reception of the classical nude : Venus in the Middle Ages / Jane Long -- Male nudes and embodied spirituality in Romanesque sculpture / Kirk Ambrose -- The naked jongleur in the margins : manuscript contexts for social meanings / Elizabeth Moore Hunt -- A son's gaze on Noah : case or cause of viriliphobia? / Madeline H. Caviness -- Uncovering the meanings of nudity in the Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry / Martha Easton -- Pubics and privates : body hair in late medieval art / Penny Howell Jolly -- Nudity as natural garment : seeing through Adam and Eve's skin / Linda Seidel -- Integritas, Proportio, and Claritas : the body in Tuscan representations of baptism,1300-1450 / Véronique Dalmasso -- Christ bared : problems of viewing and powers of exposing / Corine Schleif -- Sin or sexual pleasure? : a little-known nude bather in a Flemish book of hours / Diane Wolfthal -- Reconsidering the nude : Northern tradition and Venetian innovation / Paula Nuttall -- Epilogue / Madeline H. Caviness.

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Publisher

  • Publication

    Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2012


Is about

  • Subject

  • Period

    400-1550


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Classification

  • ISBN

    • 1409422844
    • 9781409422846

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