Images of Sex and Desire in Renaissance Art and Modern Historiography

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Introduction[Angeliki Pollali]Part I: The Politics of Desire: Stereotypes and Ambiguity of Gender Identity1. Body Language in Durer's Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand Christians[Linda C. Hults]2. Hilarious Homoeroticism, or the Renaissance of Stereotypes in Filarete's Bronze Doors for St. Peter's[Peter Bell]3. Carnal Desire and Conflicted Sexual Identity in a 'Dominican' Chapel[Robin O'Bryan]4. Mirror Effects: The Narcissus Emblem in Sceve's Delie[Nancy M. Frelick]Part II: Mechanisms for Actualizing Desire: From Seduction to 'Postcoital Man'5. Who is to Blame? Representing Adultery in Early Modern Books: Alciato, Aneau, Brant, Ripa[Sabine Engel]6. Cupid and the Bear: Emblems of Creation and Images of Seduction in Sixteenth-Century Art Writing and Love Imagery[Romana Sammern]7. The Power of Women and the Postcoital Man[Tatiana C. String]8. The Double Strike: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Donatello's Judith and Holofernes[Angeliki Pollali]Part III: Beyond the 'Pleasure Principle' or the Polysemy of Desire9 Violence and Desire: Fetishist Impulses and Violence against the Female Body in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili[Liliana Leopardi]10. Drunkenness, Sex and Desire in Titian's Bacchanal of the Andrians[Francois Quiviger]11. Pollution and Desire in Hans Baldung Grien: The Abject, Erotic Spell of the Witch and Dragon[Yvonne Owens]12. Gabrielle d'Estrees et l'une de ses Soeurs and the Pleasures of Proliferative Criticism[Katherine Crawford]