The Roman Charity : queer lactations in early modern visual culture /
Sperling, Jutta Gisela,
The Roman Charity : queer lactations in early modern visual culture / Jutta Gisela Sperling. - 1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations (some color) - Image ; volume 87 . - Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; 87. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Images -- Chapter 1. Breastfeeding Pero -- Chapter 2. The Caravaggesque Moment -- Chapter 3. Poussin's and Rubens's Long Shadows -- Part II: Texts and Contexts -- Chapter 4. The Literary Tradition -- Chapter 5. Adult Breastfeeding as Cure -- Chapter 6. Charity, Mother of Allegory -- Chapter 7. Patriarchy and Its Discontents -- Appendix -- List of Figures -- Table. Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices1 -- Works Cited -- Index of Artists.
Open Access
The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamed Roman daughter, who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. "The Roman Charity" investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The book explores the popularity of a topic that renders modern viewers uneasy, but appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the venerable concept of "charity", and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It tries to understand why and how early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene "good to think with", and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality.
In English.
3839432847 3837632849 9783837632842 9783839432846
10.14361/9783839432846 doi
Breastfeeding in art.
Sex--Social aspects.
Sex (Psychology)
Sex and history.
The arts.
The arts: general issues.
Theory of art.
ART--Criticism.
Breastfeeding in art.
Sex and history.
Sex (Psychology)
Sex--Social aspects.
Visual Culture Queer Studies Early Modern History Gender Patriarchy Art Image Cultural History Visual Studies Queer Theory Art History Fine Arts
Electronic books.
N8217.B75
700
The Roman Charity : queer lactations in early modern visual culture / Jutta Gisela Sperling. - 1 online resource (430 pages) : illustrations (some color) - Image ; volume 87 . - Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; 87. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Images -- Chapter 1. Breastfeeding Pero -- Chapter 2. The Caravaggesque Moment -- Chapter 3. Poussin's and Rubens's Long Shadows -- Part II: Texts and Contexts -- Chapter 4. The Literary Tradition -- Chapter 5. Adult Breastfeeding as Cure -- Chapter 6. Charity, Mother of Allegory -- Chapter 7. Patriarchy and Its Discontents -- Appendix -- List of Figures -- Table. Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices1 -- Works Cited -- Index of Artists.
Open Access
The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamed Roman daughter, who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. "The Roman Charity" investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The book explores the popularity of a topic that renders modern viewers uneasy, but appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the venerable concept of "charity", and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It tries to understand why and how early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene "good to think with", and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality.
In English.
3839432847 3837632849 9783837632842 9783839432846
10.14361/9783839432846 doi
Breastfeeding in art.
Sex--Social aspects.
Sex (Psychology)
Sex and history.
The arts.
The arts: general issues.
Theory of art.
ART--Criticism.
Breastfeeding in art.
Sex and history.
Sex (Psychology)
Sex--Social aspects.
Visual Culture Queer Studies Early Modern History Gender Patriarchy Art Image Cultural History Visual Studies Queer Theory Art History Fine Arts
Electronic books.
N8217.B75
700