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Indicative Weekly Topics
1. Introduction:听A 鈥楻enaissance鈥� body? 鈥� the body as corpus, as corpse, as statue, as 鈥榤an鈥�.听
2. Nature and artifice:
Clay and bone - Myths of origin, modelling and firing the earth
3. Effigies, robots and gods:
Metal alloys and gold: gilded effigies, pagan idols, enslaved and hybrid bodies.听
4. The body of difference:
Paint - 听Painting skin, 鈥業ncarnazione鈥�, astral bodies, and the bodies of 鈥榦thers鈥櫶�
5. The nude set in stone:听
Marble and coloured stones - making giants, the body in fragments, the figura 鈥榣iberated鈥� and analysed.听
6. Simulacrum and substitute:听
Wax, plaster, hair 鈥� the 鈥榣ike life鈥� body, votive images and casts from death and life.
7.听The suffering and the aging body:
Wood 鈥� carving from the living wood, the Crucifixus, penitent and abject bodies.听
8.听Group presentations of virtual exhibition themes, rationales and preliminary list.听
9.听Fashioning the body:听
Cloth of gold and steel, tailoring and shaping the body听
10.听Bodies in Time: Petrification, decay, destruction and preservation听
Suggested Reading
Christy Anderson, Anne Dunlop and Pamela H. Smith,听The Matter of Art: Materials, Practices, Cultural Logics c. 1250-1600,听Manchester 2014, esp. Anne-Sophie Lehmann, 鈥楾he Matter of Materials鈥�, pp. 21-41听
Pamela H. Smith,听The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution, Chicago and London 2004, Chapter 3听
Michael Cole, 鈥楥ellini鈥檚 Blood鈥�,听Art Bulletin, 81, no. 2, 1999, pp. 215-35听
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Jim Harris, 鈥楧efying the Predictable: Donatello and the Discomfiture of Vasari鈥�, in J. Harris, S. Nethersole and P. Rumberg eds.,听鈥榰n insalata di pi霉 erbe鈥�: A Festschrift for Patricia Lee Rubin, Courtauld Institute, London 2011, pp. 151 鈥� 163 and 229-235听
Martina Droth and Penelope Curtis,听Bronze: The Power of Life and Death, exh. cat. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 2005