Campbell, Stephen J. The cabinet of eros : Renaissance mythological painting and the studiolo of Isabella d'Este

Folger bibliographic ID: 195233
Folger call number: ND1422.I83 C36 2004
Folger holdings ID: 235631

General notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-393) and index

Contents

Placing the gods -- Studiolo and its histories -- Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self -- Myth and the articulation of gender and space -- Isabella's "cupidity": collecting and literary production -- The paintings -- Mantegna's Mars and Venus: poetry, natural history and the origins of art -- Mantegna's mythic signatures: Pallas and the vices -- Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Perugino and Paride da Ceresara -- Lorenzo Costa's Coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance of Sappho -- "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments": courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus -- "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome -- Conclusion : The rise of mythological painting in sixteenth-century Italy

Extended title: The cabinet of eros : Renaissance mythological painting and the studiolo of Isabella d'Este / Stephen Campbell

Mythology, Classical, in art Painting, Italian Painting, Renaissance Palazzo ducale (Mantua, Italy). Studiolo Studiolos Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539

author: Campbell, Stephen J. (Stephen John), 1963-
subject: Palazzo ducale (Mantua, Italy). Studiolo
subject: Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539