Research Catalog

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Description

1. 430 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Summary

1. The ancient stories of Pero, who breastfed her father, and of the unnamend Roman daughter, who breastfed her mother, were of tremendous interest to artists and their audiences from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment.0?The Roman Charity± investigates the iconography of the breastfeeding daughter from the perspective of queer sexuality and erotic maternity. The book explores the popularity of a topic that renders modern viewers uneasy, but appealed to early modern observers for its eroticizing shock value, its ironic take on the venerable concept of ?charity±, and its implied critique of patriarchal power structures. It tries to understand why and how early modern viewers found an incestuous, adult breastfeeding scene ?good to think with±, and aims at expanding and queering our notions of early modern sexuality.

Series statement

1. Image ; v. 87

Uniform title

1. Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 87.

Alternative title

1. Queer lactations in early modern visual culture

Subject

1. 1600-1699
2. Breastfeeding in art
3. Art, Modern > 17th century > Themes, motives
4. Art, Renaissance > Themes, motives
5. Sex > Social aspects
6. Sex (Psychology)
7. Sex and history
8. Gay people
9. Allaitement maternel dans l'art
10. Art > 17e siècle > Thèmes, motifs
11. Art de la Renaissance > Thèmes, motifs
12. Sexualité > Aspect social
13. Sexualité (Psychologie)
14. Sexualité et histoire
15. Personnes homosexuelles
16. male homosexuality
17. Art, Renaissance > Themes, motives
18. Art, Modern > Themes, motives
19. Breastfeeding in art
20. Gays
21. Sex and history
22. Sex > Social aspects

Genre/Form

1. Fiction
2. Fiction.
3. Romans.

Contents

1. Pt. I Images -- ch. 1 Breastfeeding Pero: Sign of Desire, Transgression, and Dionysian Excess (1525 -- 50) -- ch. 2 The Caravaggesque Moment: Roman Charity as Figure of Dissent -- ch. 3 Poussin's and Rubens's Long Shadows: Roman Charity, French History Painting, and the Hybridization of Genres -- pt. II Texts and Contexts -- ch. 4 The Literary Tradition: Erotic Insinuations, Irony, and Ekphrasis -- ch. 5 Adult Breastfeeding as Cure: Queer Lactations in Medical Discourse -- ch. 6 Charity, Mother of Allegory: Breastfeeding as "Other Speech" -- ch. 7 Patriarchy and Its Discontents: Father-Daughter Relations and the Emergence of Absolutism -- Appendix -- List of Figures -- Table: Caravaggisti, Caravaggeschi, and Their Iconographical Choices.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.