Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Art Final-Terms

Loggia de’Lanzi

open air sculpture gallery built for public ceremonies in the Palazzo Vecchio

Council of Trent

16th century meeting of Catholic leaders; Catholic Church’s response to the Protestant Revolution; reforms the church; seductive is problematic; gets uncomfortable and covers up nudity

Aphrodite of Knidos

sculpture by Praxiteles around the 4th century BC; first free-standing statue of the female nude (Venus)

Giorgio Vasari

Italian Renaissance painter, architect, art historian, and biographer; known for The Lives

Ritrarre

replication; the lesser imitation skill; physical reproduction

Imitare

imitation; an image that appears to be life like; “as if it’s about to speak”

Pasquinade

satirical poems to point out behaviors of people; affixed to public statues

Charles Hope

British art historian; female nudes as “pin up girls”; in opposition with Rosand

Attribute

an object that identifies a patron saint (Agatha’s breasts)

Deucalion and Pyrrha

remained after the flood and had to repopulate the Earth; represents fertility, antiquity, duty as a wife, and the role of marriage as public and private; Verso of Maddalena Strozzi portrait

Corrective gaze

poesie

paragone

Dovizia

abundance; watchful women in the town square as a blessing to commerce; domestic devotion for fertility

Ringhiera

platform; in front of Palazzo Vecchio; public art gallery

Jouissance

joy; female pleasure exceeding joy that is informed by horror

Cartoon

big piece of paper; preliminary drawing to be transferred to painting

Tondo

round painting or sculpture

Leo Steinberg

20th century art historian; sexuality of Christ as proof of his humanity

Pudica pose

pose derived by Venus; hands around breasts and genitals; conceals and draws the viewer’s attention

Pasquino

Epithalamium

Ovid

Philip II

Ganymede

Tommaso de’Cavalieri

Isabella d’Este

Studiolo

Grotta

Intelletto

Concetto

Invenzione

Idea

Disegno

Virgo