Gender, Otherness, and Culture in Medieval and Early Modern Art (The New Middle Ages) by Carlee A. Bradbury
English | 19 Dec. 2017 | ISBN: 3319650483 | 244 Pages | PDF | 7.05 MB
English | 19 Dec. 2017 | ISBN: 3319650483 | 244 Pages | PDF | 7.05 MB
This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting up-and-coming and established scholars, explore both iconographic and stylistic similarities deployed to construct gender identity. The text analyzes a vast array of medieval artworks, including Dieric Bouts’s Justice of Otto III, Albrecht Dürer’s Feast of the Rose Garland, Rembrandt van Rijn’s Naked Woman Seated on a Mound, and Renaissance-era transi tombs of French women to illuminate medieval and early modern ideas about gender identity, poverty, religion, honor, virtue, sexuality, and motherhood, among others.