2018 Seen From Behind: Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

Description

Illustrated throughout with numerous colour images. An exploration of Renaissance bodies, both dressed and undressed, offering a specific focus to the male body as seen from behind. Oftentimes scholarship on the subject of male bodies in this period of art is concentrated on phallic-orientated masculinity, connecting to issues of patriarchy and power. This volume instead explores the meaning attached to the male backside in Renaissance art and culture. Written by Patricia Lee Rubin, an American art historian and a scholar of Italian Renaissance art.