TY  - BOOK
AU  - Springer,Carolyn
TI  - Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance
SN  - 9781442626171
U1  - 739.7/5094509031 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Armor in art
KW  - Armor, Renaissance
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Italy
KW  - Masculinity
KW  - History
KW  - ART / History / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Photograph Credits --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART ONE: ARMOURED BODIES --; 1. The Classical Body: The Poetics of the Bella Figura --; 2. The Sacred Body: The Armour of Sacrifice --; 3. The Grotesque Body: Tropes and Apotropes --; PART TWO: STUDIES IN SELF-FASHIONING --; 4. Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514–74) --; 5. Charles V Habsburg (1500–58) --; 6. Cosimo I de’ Medici (1519–74) --; Conclusion --; Glossary --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression. Luxury armour became a chief accessory in the performance of elite male identity, coded with messages regarding the owner's social status, genealogy, and political alliances. Carolyn Springer decodes Renaissance armour as three-dimensional portraits through the case studies of three patrons of luxury armourers, Guidobaldo II della Rovere (1514-75), Charles V Habsburg (1500-58 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1519-56), and Cosimo I de'Medici (1519-74). A fascinating exposition of male self-representation, Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance explores the significance of armour in early modern Italy as both cultural artefact and symbolic form
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442685765
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442685765
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442685765/original
ER  -