TY - BOOK ID - 113584759 TI - The imagery and politics of sexual violence in early Renaissance Italy PY - 2023 SN - 1009302299 1009122525 1009302302 1009100688 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Rape in art. KW - Sex crimes in art. KW - Painting, Italian KW - Themes, motives. KW - Italian painting KW - Painting, Renaissance KW - Art KW - Art and society KW - Political aspects KW - History KW - Art and sociology KW - Society and art KW - Sociology and art KW - Art, Occidental KW - Art, Primitive KW - Art, Visual KW - Art, Western (Western countries) KW - Arts, Fine KW - Arts, Visual KW - Fine arts KW - Iconography KW - Occidental art KW - Visual arts KW - Western art (Western countries) KW - Arts KW - Aesthetics KW - Paintings, Renaissance KW - Renaissance painting KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:113584759 AB - This book is the first comprehensive study of images of rape in Italian painting at the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, P{copy}{flat}ter Bokody examines depictions of sexual violence in religion, law, medicine, literature, politics, and history writing produced in kingdoms (Sicily and Naples) and city-republics (Florence, Siena, Lucca, Bologna and Padua). Whilst misogynistic endorsement characterized many of these visual discourses, some urban communities condemned rape in their propaganda against tyranny. Such representations of rape often link gender and aggression to war, abduction, sodomy, prostitution, pregnancy, and suicide. Bokody also traces how the new naturalism in painting, introduced by Giotto, increased verisimilitude, but also fostered imagery that coupled eroticism and violation. Exploring images and texts that have long been overlooked, Bokody's study provides new insights at the intersection of gender, policy, and visual culture, with evident relevance to our contemporary condition. ER -