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Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture Hardcover - 1999
by Bette Talvacchia
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- Title Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture
- Author Bette Talvacchia
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780691026329 / 0691026327
- Weight 2.31 lbs (1.05 kg)
- Dimensions 9.75 x 6.75 x 1.27 in (24.77 x 17.15 x 3.23 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-30704
- Dewey Decimal Code 769.428
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Illustrated Boards). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Illustrated. Acknowledgements, introduction by author, to appendices, notes, selected bibliography and index. Ochre coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with reproductions of historical illustrations, including those of Giulio Romano. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered boards with white coloured titles. 3/4 illustrated front board with white coloured titles. An exploration of the place of erotic art in Renaissance culture in Italy, particularly focusing on the set of 16 images of couples in various sexual positions created by Giulio Romano in the early 1520s. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with the book panels showing handling marks. Size: 4to 9¾" - 12" tall. [9], X - XIII, [4], 4 - 302, [4] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Illustrated. Quantity Available: 1.…
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Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover (1/4 Cloth 3/4 Illustrated Boards). Very Good Condition. Illustrator: Illustrated. Acknowledgements, introduction by author, to appendices, notes, selected bibliography and index. Dark rust coloured end pages. The text is illustrated with black-and-white reproductions of 16th century illustrations  mostly woodcuts. 1/4 black coloured cloth covered back strip with pale yellow coloured titles. 3/4 illustrated front board with white coloured titles with the rear board being a description of the work. In the early 1520s a young Italian artist Giulio Romano created a set of 16 erotic images  of various sexual positions  known as I Modi (the positions). The images were at first privately distributed, then made public; it was when the illustrations were made public that the authorities began to consider the engravings obscene and threatening even to the point of jailing the engraver. "…
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1999. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth-backed colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description: xiii, 302 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288) and index. Contents: The historical situation -- The style and material remains of I modi -- I modi and their antique paradigms -- The issue of prints -- Printed in words: the verbal representations of Pietro Aretino -- Terms of Renaissance discourse about the erotic: Onesto and Disonesto -- The retreat of sexual representation into mythology -- Mythology, sexuality, and science in Charles Estienne's Manual of anatomy -- Texts and translations -- I sonetti lussuriosi and translations. Subjects: Romano, Giulio 1499-1546; Illustrations; Raimondi, Marcantonio ca. 1480-ca. 1534; 1500-1599; 16th century; Erotic…
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