In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy

This Study Concentrates On The Renaissance Concern With 'self-fashioning' By Examining How A Group Of Renaissance Artists And Writers Encoded Their Own Improprieties In Their Works Of Art. In The Elitist Court Society Of Sixteenth-century Italy, Where Moderation, Limitation, And Discretion Were Generally Held To Be Essential Virtues, These Men Consistently Sought To Stand Out And To Underplay Their Conspicuousness At Once. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue -- Note On Translations -- Introduction -- Part One. Diplomacy -- 1. Baldassar Castiglione And The Art Of Being Inconspicuously Conspicuous -- Part Two. Food -- 2. Pietro Aretino And The Art Of Conspicuous Consumption -- 3. Michelangelo Buonarroti And The Art Of Conspicuous Absorption -- Part Three. Objects -- 4. Benvenuto Cellini And The Art Of Conspicuous Production -- 5. Anton Francesco Doni And The Art Of Conspicuous Reproduction -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Extant Manuscripts With Designs By Doni, In Rough Order -- Notes -- Index Bibliographic Level Mode Of Issuance: Monograph Includes Bibliographical References And Index. English