639 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 21 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Revise, expand, unexpurgate / D. Medina Lasansky with Gloria Kury -- The Da Vinci Code. -- The sex of artists in Renaissance Italy / Patricia Simons -- Inventing Michelangelo / James M. Saslow -- A Venetian Wedding. -- Raphael redux / Anne Higonnet -- The Sopranos, mannerist painting, and postmodern television / Cristelle Baskins -- A visit to the Sistine Chapel -- Pasquino, blogging in the streets of Rome / Brian A. Curran and Andrea Vera Raymond -- Sacred graffiti / D. Medina Lasansky -- Renaissance plastic surgery -- The way you wear your hat / Ian Frederick Moulton -- The case of the errant art historian / Gloria Kury -- Renaissance imports -- The Medici McMansion? / Denise R. Costanzo -- The golden girl / Carole Collier Frick -- Better than Venice / D. Meldina Lasansky -- The art of eating -- The power of mother's milk / Yael Manes -- Mattia Giegher living / Evelyn Lincoln -- Hitler, consummate tourist -- A semester in Rome / Sarah Benson -- Mother road / Catherine Wilkinson Zerner -- The bonfire of the vanities -- Looking at sex, I modi to cosmo / Sarah Benson -- Lovely and lethal / Gloria Kury -- The ghetto -- Forgetting the Mediterranean / Maria Galli Stampino -- Portraits of the invisible
Summary:
The volume pools new research from a team of experts in art, architecture, history, and literature, and juxtaposes modern and classical art and explores the relationship between them. The book's 129 illustrations include images of contemporary art never before related to the Renaissance, and well-known appropriations of classical art. The front cover shows Andy Warhol's Detail from a Renaissance Painting (1984), based on Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. "We're trying to shake up the field of Renaissance studies," says Lasansky. "It's so elitist and so stodgy and so male. There are a lot of things that have never been discussed."