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This book is the first-in-depth exploration of rape as it has been portrayed in Western art from the twelfth through seventeenth centuries. Examining the full range of representations, from those that glorify rape to those that condemn it, Diane Wolfthal illuminates the complex web of attitudes towards sexual violence that existed in the medieval and early modern society. Wolfthal first explores Italian Renaissance and Baroque images of "heroic" rape, in which the victim seldom suffers and the crime is sanitized, aestheticized, or eroticized. These are contrasted with a range of images, mostly created in Northern Europe, that have been ignored. Often critical of the assailant and sympathetic to his victim, these works reveal that society did, in certain circumstances, severely condemn the act of rape. Using picture bibles, law treatises, justice paintings, war prints, and the manuscripts of Christine de Pizan, among other visual documentation, Wolfthal demonstrates how this range of images still influences contemporary debate about sexual violence.

Iconography --- raping --- Rape in art --- Rape --- History --- Rape in art - History --- Rape - Europe - History --- vrouwengeschiedenis

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Prints, Dutch --- Prints, Flemish --- Mannerism (Art) --- Love in art --- Rape in art --- Estampe néerlandaise --- Estampe flamande --- Maniérisme (Art) --- Amour dans l'art --- Viol dans l'art --- Exhibitions. --- Expositions --- Goltzius, Hendrik, --- Influence

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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.

Rape in art. --- Sex crimes in art. --- Painting, Italian --- Themes, motives. --- Italian painting --- Painting, Renaissance --- Art --- Art and society --- Political aspects --- History --- Art and sociology --- Society and art --- Sociology and art --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Primitive --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Paintings, Renaissance --- Renaissance painting --- Social aspects