Description Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the Male Body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power.
This original book examines the range of meaning that has been attached to the Male backside in Renaissance art and culture, the transformation of the base connotation of the image to high art, and the question of homoer.
Description Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the Male Body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power
