Do the angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Heaven and the Flesh explores the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from the High Renaissance to the birth of Romanticism. Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson analyze the work of little-known as well as canonical writers and artists, philosophers and theologians. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated survey offers new and sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.
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"...a fresh perspective on religious imagery (both visual and verbal)....a lucid interweaving of Milton and Caravaggio with frankly pornographic poetry and book illustrations. Hart and Stevenson should be commended for their unabashed discussion of sexualized religious imagery....an extremely refreshing presentation..." Choice
"Among the handsomest book of the season is Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo, by Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson." Studies in English Literature
"Among the handsomest book of the season is Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo, by Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson." Studies in English Literature
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Do the angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Heaven and the Flesh explores the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from the high renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson analyse the work of little known as well as canonical writers and artists, and philosophers and theologians as well as wits. This wide-ranging and well-illustrated survey offers new and sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.
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A popular thirteenth-century fabliau tells of a naive virgin who insisted that she would never marry and who also said publicly, to many astonished listeners, that she had an overwhelming desire to fly through the air like Daedalus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inverted intercourse, ascensional imagery, stucco plaque, winged penis, degli huomini, imperfect enjoyment, rococo art, rococo churches, esoteric theology, ceiling fresco, bodily assumption, pilgrimage church, baroque artists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Song of Songs, The Bathers, Aphra Behn, Holy Ghost, God the Father, John Hall, Saint Augustine, Egid Quirin Asam, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Sankt Florian, Upper Austria, Petrus de Palude, Richard Westall, Saint Benedict, Saint Scholastica, The Birth of Venus, The Faene Queene, Virgin Mary New!
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A popular thirteenth-century fabliau tells of a naive virgin who insisted that she would never marry and who also said publicly, to many astonished listeners, that she had an overwhelming desire to fly through the air like Daedalus. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inverted intercourse, ascensional imagery, stucco plaque, winged penis, degli huomini, imperfect enjoyment, rococo art, rococo churches, esoteric theology, ceiling fresco, bodily assumption, pilgrimage church, baroque artists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Song of Songs, The Bathers, Aphra Behn, Holy Ghost, God the Father, John Hall, Saint Augustine, Egid Quirin Asam, Johann Baptist Zimmermann, Sankt Florian, Upper Austria, Petrus de Palude, Richard Westall, Saint Benedict, Saint Scholastica, The Birth of Venus, The Faene Queene, Virgin Mary New!
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- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 18 pages
- The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume II: Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes, Poems Upon Several Occasions, both English and Latin (Oxford Scholarly Classics) by John Milton on 7 pages
- Milton: Paradise Lost (2nd Edition) by Alastair Fowler on 5 pages
- Seeing Through Clothes by Anne Hollander on 4 pages
- The Complete Poems by Earl of Rochester on 4 pages
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- Architectures: Modernism and After (New Interventions in Art History) by Andrew Ballantyne on page 97, and Back Matter
- Cassone Painting, Humanism and Gender in Early Modern Italy (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism) by Cristelle L. Baskins in Back Matter
- Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture by Gail Hawkes in Back Matter
- Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage: Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) by Celia R. Daileader in Back Matter
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