"Overall, this collection of essays explores new, gendered ground in the firmly rooted classical tradition in Renaissance art, and scholars from art history, literature, and gender studies will all find this book to be informative. The volume sheds much light on an important subject that has not received the attention it deserves from scholars; (...) I have no doubt that future explorations of gendered receptions of antiquity in Renaissance visual culture will draw on the many insights of these essays." Allison Fisher, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 1"As is often found with such books, there is variability among the essays, but the overall quality is excellent.There are numerous figures included within the essays demonstrating the care with which each scholar considered the evidence for their claims.(...) The variety of approaches to the topic of gender in the reception of classical art highlights how fruitful this topic is. The overall effect is the demolition of static, prescriptive notions of gender over the period in question and to demonstrate the multivalence of many classical motifs." Natasha Amendola, The Medieval Review 16.12.12"Ultimately, the collection of essays is perhaps the ideal format for poststructuralist approaches to art history. A clear principle—the relative “horizon of expectations”—underpins the otherwise sui generis data of a multitude of case studies, each with her own nuanced stories that might be overshadowed by a broader narrative, and art history is richer as a result."Rebecca Shields, Rutgers University, Woman's Art Journal 38, 1, summer 2017."A strength of the essays is the way in which scholars note that the interpretation of the classical figures was not static; repeatedly the reader is shown that interpretations change over time and are based on the circumstances of the viewer, differentiated by gender or by social and economic status. This book is a valuable and welcome addition to the study of late medieval and early modern receptions of gender and classical antiquity in visual culture. (...) The editors and most contributors are art historians, but the methodological perspectives and conclusions offered here will be of broad interest to scholars across the humanities."Rita Keane, Drew University, Speculum, 94/4 (October 2019).
