In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Biow, Douglas

In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780804762151)

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In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Biow, Douglas

In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy

$100.00
In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy by Biow, Douglas

In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy

$100.00
Format: Hardcover
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In Your Face concentrates on the basic Renaissance concern with self-fashioning by examining the behavior of some notorious Italian artists and writers, including Michelangelo and Benvenuto Cellini, who upset the decorum of their time on a grand scale.

Author: Douglas Biow
ISBN-10: 0804762155
ISBN-13: 9780804762151
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/24/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Douglas Biow
By Douglas Biow
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Douglas Biow is Professor of Italian & Comparative Literature, Director of the Center for European Studies, and Superior Oil Company Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (2006).

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