Gender, Space and Experience at the Renaissance Court

Performance and Practice at the Palazzo Te
0. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6298-553-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time. The Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Palace in Cyberspace: a note on the virtual tour List of figures Acknowledgments Chapter 1: The Performative Palace Chapter 2: Spaces of Ceremony Chapter 3: The Palace in Time Chapter 4: The Unbounded Palace Chapter 5: Troubling Space Epilogue: Ruin and Rebirth Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Maurer, Maria
Maria F. Maurer is an assistant professor of medieval and early modern art history at the University of Tulsa since 2013. Her PhD in the history of Italian Renaissance art from Indiana University was granted in 2012.

"https://faculty.utulsa.edu/faculty/maria-maurer/">Maria F. Maurer is an assistant professor of medieval and early modern art history at the University of Tulsa since 2013. Her PhD in the history of Italian Renaissance art from Indiana University was granted in 2012.