beauty, politics, literature and art in early Renaissance Florence
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
University of Birmingham
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به پایان نامه ها
جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن
Ph.D.
کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده
University of Birmingham
امتياز متن
2015
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
My thesis offers the first full exploration of the literature and art associated with the Genoese noblewoman Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci (1453-1476). Simonetta has gone down in legend as a model of Sandro Botticelli, and most scholarly discussions of her significance are principally concerned with either proving or disproving this theory. My point of departure, rather, is the series of vernacular poems that were written about Simonetta just before and shortly after her early death. I use them to tell a new story, that of the transformation of the historical manna Simonetta into a cultural icon, a literary and visual construct who served the political, aesthetic and pecuniary agendas of her poets and artists. It is an account of the Florentine circles that used women to forge a collective sense of identity, of the emergence of Simonetta and her equally idealised peers as touchstones in contemporary debates regarding beauty and love, and of their corresponding lack of importance as 'real' women in the conservative republic in which they lived. In doing this, my thesis makes an important contribution to our understanding of how and why female beauty was commodified in the poetry and art of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Florence.
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
DG Italy
موضوع مستند نشده
HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
موضوع مستند نشده
NX Arts in general
موضوع مستند نشده
PQ Romance literatures
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