Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives is the first in-depth exploration of rape as it has been portrayed in Western art from the twelfth through the 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 toward sexual violence that existed in the medieval and early modern society. She makes her case using a range of visual documentation, including picture Bibles, law treatises, justice paintings, war prints, and the manuscripts of Christine de Pizan.
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"If I were asked to select the most important book on early modern European art history in 1999, I would choose Diane Wolfthal's Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and Its Alternatives." Yael Evans, Sixteenth Century Journal
"By examining why art historians have assigned erotic and sanitized images of rape to the canon in place of less salacious traditions, Wolfthal's book raises fundemental questions about art historical practice." National Financial Post
"This should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the visual cultures of Western traditions...Wolfthal is to be congratulated and thanked for bringing this material together." CAA Reviews
"By examining why art historians have assigned erotic and sanitized images of rape to the canon in place of less salacious traditions, Wolfthal's book raises fundamental questions about art historical practice." National Financial Post
"paint[s] a fascinating and complex picture of the conflicted sexual premises, ideals, and solutions that lie behind and around such images....should form a fundmental starting point for any future resesarch on Renaissance sexual imagery." Renaissance Quarterly
"By examining why art historians have assigned erotic and sanitized images of rape to the canon in place of less salacious traditions, Wolfthal's book raises fundemental questions about art historical practice." National Financial Post
"This should be required reading for anyone interested in understanding the visual cultures of Western traditions...Wolfthal is to be congratulated and thanked for bringing this material together." CAA Reviews
"By examining why art historians have assigned erotic and sanitized images of rape to the canon in place of less salacious traditions, Wolfthal's book raises fundamental questions about art historical practice." National Financial Post
"paint[s] a fascinating and complex picture of the conflicted sexual premises, ideals, and solutions that lie behind and around such images....should form a fundmental starting point for any future resesarch on Renaissance sexual imagery." Renaissance Quarterly
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Images of Rape: The "Heroic" Tradition and its Alternatives 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. She makes her case using a range of visual documentation, including picture bibles, law treatises, justice paintings, war prints, and the manuscripts of Christine de Pizan.
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An excellent examination of historical depictions of rape.,
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Wolfthal examines depictions of rape during the medieval and Renaissance periods, and reveals tellingly and thoughtfully how complex and varied the attitudes towards rape were from around 1100-1700. In contrast to the more simplistic views with which we are often presented, her essay points out that rape was by no means always glorified, but frequently viewed with the disapproval which it deserves; and she makes her case compellingly and fascinatingly, using a wide range of illustrations from several countries and all sorts of spheres. This is a learned book, but, though thought-provoking and demanding, never heavy or ponderous. It is sure to become a classic on its subject, and should be read by all who are interested in rape and attitudes to it. I have found it one of the best scholarly books I have read during an academic career that spans more than four decades.
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Will change the way you look at art,
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This review is from: Images of Rape: The 'Heroic' Tradition and its Alternatives (Paperback)
Wolfthal's well-presented study with cause you look twice at Renaissance depictions of rape as an heroic artistic subject and inspire you wonder what happened to cause women's rights to decline during 14th century.
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To most art historians the word "rape"brings to mind Poussin's Rape of the Sabines, Titian's Rape of Europa, or some such depiction in which the assailant is a Greek or Roman god or hero (Figs. 1 and 13). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gendered spatial boundaries, rape imagery, justice paintings, rape images, nobles femmes, modern art historians, erotic magic, real rape, war imagery, rape scenes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Morgan Picture Bible, Christine de Pizan, Pamplona Bible, Cite des Dames, Italian Renaissance, Middle Ages, Giovanni Boccaccio, Large Miseries, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Picture Bibles, Rape of Europa, San Marco, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Titian's Europa, British Library, Art Resource, Children of Mars, Jacques Callot, Kleophrades Painter, Niklaus Manuel, Old Testament, Sebald Beham, Albrecht Altdorfer, Duke of Berry New!
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To most art historians the word "rape"brings to mind Poussin's Rape of the Sabines, Titian's Rape of Europa, or some such depiction in which the assailant is a Greek or Roman god or hero (Figs. 1 and 13). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
gendered spatial boundaries, rape imagery, justice paintings, rape images, nobles femmes, modern art historians, erotic magic, real rape, war imagery, rape scenes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Morgan Picture Bible, Christine de Pizan, Pamplona Bible, Cite des Dames, Italian Renaissance, Middle Ages, Giovanni Boccaccio, Large Miseries, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Picture Bibles, Rape of Europa, San Marco, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Titian's Europa, British Library, Art Resource, Children of Mars, Jacques Callot, Kleophrades Painter, Niklaus Manuel, Old Testament, Sebald Beham, Albrecht Altdorfer, Duke of Berry New!
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Front Cover | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Expanding Discourse: Feminism And Art History (Icon Editions) by Norma Broude on 5 pages
- Greece and Rome (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) by Joan R. Mertens on 4 pages
- Artemisia Gentileschi by Mary D. Garrard on 4 pages
- The City of Ladies (Penguin Great Ideas) by Christine de Pizan on 4 pages
- Renaissance War Studies (Hambledon Press History Series) by John Rigby Hale in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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