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Gender, space and experience at the Renaissance court: performance and practice at the Palazzo Te (2019)

Amsterdam University Press
Publication date: 2019
Language: English

ISBN: 9789462985537

Publication Date: 2019
Edition Details: Book. series: Visual and material culture, 1300-1700, vol. 9
Physical Details: 241

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Architecture and Society Masculinity Gender Architecture Femininity 16th century Renaissance 17th century Mantua Italy

Gender, Space, and Experience at the Renaissance Court investigates the dynamic relationships between gender and architectural space in Renaissance Italy. It examines the ceremonial use and artistic reception of the Palazzo Te from the arrival of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in 1530 to the Sack of Mantua in 1630. This book further proposes that we conceptualise the built environment as a performative space, a space formed by the gendered relationships and actors of its time, asserting that the Palazzo Te was constituted by the gendered behaviors of sixteenth-century courtiers, but it was not simply a passive receptor of gender performance. Through its multivalent form and ceremonial function, Maria F. Maurer argues that the palace was an active participant in the construction and perception of femininity and masculinity in the early modern court.

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Review Charles M. Rosenberg (2022) Review of "Gender, space and experience at the Renaissance court: performance and practice at the Palazzo Te". Renaissance Quarterly (pp. 224-226). unapi

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