Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography

Introduction

[Angeliki Pollali]

Part I: The Politics of Desire: Stereotypes and Ambiguity of Gender Identity

1. Body Language in Duerer's Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians

[Linda C. Hults]

2. Hilarious Homoeroticism, or the Renaissance of Stereotypes in Filarete's Bronze Doors for St. Peter's

[Peter Bell]

3. Carnal Desire and Conflicted Sexual Identity in a 'Dominican' Chapel

[Robin O'Bryan]

4. Mirror Effects: The Narcissus Emblem in Sceve's Delie

[Nancy M. Frelick]

Part II: Mechanisms for Actualizing Desire: From Seduction to 'Postcoital Man'

5. Who is to Blame? Representing Adultery in Early Modern Books: Alciato, Aneau, Brant, Ripa

[Sabine Engel]

6. Cupid and the Bear: Emblems of Creation and Images of Seduction in Sixteenth-Century Art Writing and Love Imagery

[Romana Sammern]

7. The Power of Women and the Postcoital Man

[Tatiana C. String]

8. The Double Strike: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Donatello's Judith and Holofernes

[Angeliki Pollali]

Part III: Beyond the 'Pleasure Principle' or the Polysemy of Desire

9 Violence and Desire: Fetishist Impulses and Violence against the Female Body in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

[Liliana Leopardi]

10. Drunkenness, Sex and Desire in Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians

[Francois Quiviger]

11. Pollution and Desire in Hans Baldung Grien: The Abject, Erotic Spell of the Witch and Dragon

[Yvonne Owens]

12. Gabrielle d'Estrees et l'une de ses Soeurs and the Pleasures of Proliferative Criticism

[Katherine Crawford]