Titian, Colonna and the renaissance science of procreation: Equicola's seasons of desire

Contents

Alfonso d'Este's Camerino, Mario Equicola, and the libidinal seasons : Proemium. The libido in winter : Bellini's (and Titian's) Feast of the gods -- The libido in springtime : Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne -- The libido in summer : Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians -- The libido in autumn : Titian's Feast of Venus -- Interpreting the Camerino : Titian's bacchanal as procreative pedagogy -- Colonna's Poliphilus' : The science and season of sexual performance : Proemium. Duke Gibaldo's dysfunction : Poliphilus and the diagnosis of love -- Poliphilus's nightmare and erotic magic : an excursus on the bewitching of the male genitalia -- Poliphilus's wet dream -- A Venus in the bedroom -- Coloring the roses : Colonna, Titian, and the "third Venus" -- A sacred/profane love : the Dodonian font and Poliphilus's wedding.