Clive Hart, Kay Gilliland Stevenson

Heaven and the Flesh

Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo

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Produktbeschreibung

The book studies the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from Renaissance to Romanticism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521070942
• ISBN-10: 0521070945
• Artikelnr.: 24765448

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sexuality and ascension - finding the way
2. The woman on top - Christ, Endymion, Ganymede
3. Paradisiacal bosoms
4. Imparadised in one another's arms
5. Heaven and the flesh
6. The body and ascension in the sacred rococo art of southern Germany and Austria
7. The assumption and its transformations
8. Conclusion - Jacob's ladder and Keats's Endymion
Appendix.