Widowed Bodies, Mourning and Portraiture
by
Allison Levy
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Renaissance portraiture; the author shows it to be complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety...