Remembering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence

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Remembering Masculinity in Early Modern Florence is written by Allison Mary Levy and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754654044 (ISBN 10) and 9780754654049 (ISBN 13).

This book nuances our understanding of commemorative portraiture in early modern Florence. The author argues that male and female portraiture, complexly generated within a discourse of male anxiety and pre-mortuary mourning, could pictorially console the subject against his own potentially unmourned death. Merging early modern visual culture and critical theories of the body, this book raises new questions about Renaissance portraiture and re-configures our understanding of masculinity and mourning.