The Renaissance nude

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The Renaissance nude

edited by Thomas Kren with Jill Burke and Stephen J. Campbell ; assisted by Andrea Herrera and Thomas DePasquale ; essays by Jill Burke ... [et al.]

J. Paul Getty Museum, c2018

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Exhibition catalogue

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, held at J. Paul Getty Museum at Getty Center, Los Angeles, Oct. 30, 2018-Jan. 27, 2019 and at Royal Academy of Arts, London, Mar. 2-June 2, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The Renaissance nude, 1400-1530 / Jill Burke, Stephen J. Campbell, and Thomas Kren
  • Christian imagery and the development of the nude in Europe / Thomas Kren
  • From Venus to witches: the female nude in Northern Europe / Diane Wolfthal
  • "Painting Venus" in the poetic tradition of the Early Renaissance / C. Jean Campbell
  • Naked truth: humanism, poetry, and the nude in Renaissance art / Stephen J. Campbell
  • The body in artistic theory and practice / Jill Burke
  • The Renaissance nude and the study of the antique / Davide Gasparotto
  • Unruly bodies: the uncanny, the abject, the excessive / Stephen J. Campbell
  • "Here's looking at you": ambiguities of personalizing the nude / Ulrich Pfisterer
  • Epilogue 1: Reformation and beyond in Northern Europe / Thomas Kren
  • Epilogue 2: Michelangelo's "Last Judgement" and the reception of the nude in counter-reformation Italy / Thomas DePasquale

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Reflecting an era when Europe looked to both the classical past and a global future, this volume explores the emergence and acceptance of the nude as an artistic subject. It engages with the numerous and complex connotations of the human body in more than 250 artworks by the greatest masters of the Renaissance. Paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, illuminated manuscripts and book illustrations reveal private, sometimes shocking, preoccupations as well as surprising public beliefs - the Age of Humanism from an entirely new perspective. This book presents works by Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach and Martin Schongauer in the north and Donatello, Raphael and Giorgione in the south; it also introduces names that deserve to be known better. A publication this rich in scholarship could only be produced by a variety of expert scholars; the sixteen contributors are preeminent in their fields and wide-ranging in their knowledge and curiosity. The structure of the volume - essays alternating with shorter texts on individual artworks - permits studies both broad and granular. From the religious to the magical and the poetic to the erotic, encompassing male and female, infancy, youth and old age, The Renaissance Nude examines in a profound way what it is to be human.

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