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

The Renaissance studiolo was a space devoted in theory to private reading. The most famous studiolo of all was that of Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua. A chief component of its decoration was a series of 7 paintings by noteworthy artists. This work explores the function of the mythological image within a Renaissance culture of collectors.
Print Book, English, 2006, ©2004
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006, ©2004
viii, 402 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
9780300117530, 0300117531
64625603
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