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Pompeii's Living Statues
An intriguing look at contemporary views regarding the casts of victims from Mt. Vesuvius' eruption
Knots, Or the Violence of Desire in Renaissance Florence
""This book is about hair," writes Emanuele Lugli in the first sentence of this innovative cultural history of hair as seen through the lens of Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence. Lugli reflects on the ways writers and artists naturalized religious prejudices, circumscribed social practices, and propagated gender and class subjugation through alluring works of art, in medical and political writings, and in poetry. What, he asks, may've compelled Sandro Botticelli, for example, or the young Leonardo da Vinci and dozens of their contemporaries to obsess about hair? Why take such care in depicting the braids, knots, and textures in their portraits of women specifically? Lugli dives deeply into the...
Annual Report - National Endowment for the Humanities
Includes appendices.
