Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art

Mary Rogers, University of Bristol, UK and co-editor with Frances Ames-Lewis of Concepts of Beauty in Renaissance Art. Introduction by Joanna Woods-Marsden, University of California, Los Angeles

• 1. Introduction: Collective identity/individual identity, Joanna Woods-Marsden.  2. A Knight in the Arena: Enrico Scrovegni and his 'true image', Laura Jacobus.  3. Reconstructing Benozzo Gozzoli's Artistic Identity, Francis Ames-Lewis.  4. Patronage and Identity in Renaissance Florence: The case of S. Maria a Lecceto, Jill Burke.  5. Art and Life in Renaissance Italy: A blurring of identities, Rupert Shepherd.  6. A Preface to Signatures (with some cases in Venice), Creighton Gilbert.  7. Fashioning Identities for the Renaissance Courtesan, Mary Rogers.  8. Beauty and Identity in Parmigianino's Portraits, Mary Vaccaro.  9. Problems of Identity in an Age of Change: The Viewer of Art in Renaissance England, Tatiana C. String.  10. Moretto and the Congregation of S. Giorgio in Alga 1540-1550: Fashioning a visual identity of a religious Congregation, Gabriele Neher.  11. 'Ut vita scultura': Cellini's Perseus and the self-fashioning of artistic identity, Victoria C. Gardner Coates.  12. Artists into Heroes: The commemoration of artists in the art of Giorgio Vasari, Joan Stack.  13. 'Cittadin nostro Fiorentino': Michelangelo and Fiorentinismo in mid-sixteenth-century Florence, Frances E. Thomas.  14. The Identity of the Prince: Cosimo de' Medici, Giorgio Vasari and the Ragionamenti, Paola Tinagli.  15. 'Frail fresh, as in a glass': The portrait as an immortal presence in early modern England and Wales, Tarnya Cooper.

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