Main entry:

Campbell, Stephen J. (Stephen John), 1963-

Title & Author:

The cabinet of eros: the studiolo of Isabella d'Este and the rise of Renaissance mythological painting / Stephen Campbell.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006, ©2004.

Description:

viii, 402 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-393) and index.
Placing the gods -- Studiolo and its histories -- Study, the collection, and the Renaissance self -- Myth and the articulation of gender and space -- Isabella's "cupidity": collecting and literary production -- Paintings -- Mantegna's mars and venus: poetry, natural history and the origins of art -- Mantegna's mythic signatures: Pallas and the vices -- Tanta amorosa impresa: Isabella, Paride da Ceresara, and Perugino's battle of chastity and lasciviousness -- Lorenzo Costa's coronation of a woman poet and the Renaissance Sappho -- "Sweet counterfeiting and blandishments": courtiership, urbanitas, and Costa's Comus -- "Dominate the stars" Correggio, the Gonzaga, and the sack of Rome -- Rise of mythological painting in sixteenth century Italy.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0300117531 (cl ; alk. paper)
9780300117530 (cl ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Isabella d'Este, consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, 1474-1539.
Palazzo ducale (Museum : Mantua, Italy). Studiolo.
Mythology, Classical, in art.
Painting, Italian.
Painting, Renaissance Italy.
Studiolos Italy Mantua.
Mythologie ancienne dans l'art.
Peinture italienne.
Peinture de la Renaissance Italie.
Studiolos Italie Mantoue.
Painting, Renaissance.
Studiolos.
Italy.
Italy Mantua.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245525
Call No.: BIB 175152
Status: Available