Book contents
- The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy
- The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Two Victims of Lust
- Three Medicalized Misogyny
- Four Rape As a Weapon of War
- Five Political Allegories
- Six Abduction in Illustrated Romances
- Seven Lucretia and the Renaissance of Rape
- Eight Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Five - Political Allegories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2023
Book contents
- The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy
- The Imagery and Politics of Sexual Violence in Early Renaissance Italy
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- One Introduction
- Two Victims of Lust
- Three Medicalized Misogyny
- Four Rape As a Weapon of War
- Five Political Allegories
- Six Abduction in Illustrated Romances
- Seven Lucretia and the Renaissance of Rape
- Eight Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We will turn now to two symbolic images: The allegory of Injustice in the Arena Chapel (Padua) by Giotto di Bondone (1303–1305) and the allegory of War in the Palazzo Pubblico (Siena) by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338–1339). They are major milestones in the visualization of rape in European art, condemnatory representations intended for a public audience. Despite the extensive secondary literature on these sites, the representations of sexual violence have never been examined or compared to each other, even in specialist studies. They can potentially reconfigure our views of wartime rape before modernity.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023