Douglas Biow

Gebundenes Buch

In Your Face

Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Beschreibung

In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale.

Autor

Douglas Biow is Professor of Italian & Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for European Studies, and Superior Oil Company Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (2006).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780804762151
• ISBN-10: 0804762155
• Artikelnr.: 26526555