Mary Rogers, ed.
Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art
Cambridge, U.K.:
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
241 pp.; 39 b/w ills.
Cloth
$84.95
(0754600211)
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Although more than twenty years have passed since the publication of Stephen Greenblatt’s Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), the ability of that groundbreaking study to stimulate new ways of considering monumental works of Renaissance culture has hardly diminished. Fashioning Identities in Renaissance Art is a collection of essays inspired by Greenblatt’s work that attempts to extend his concept of literary self-fashioning to a wide array of examples in...