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Course Description

This course introduces the topic of women, gender, sexuality, and visual culture in Renaissance Europe, ca. 1400-1600. Primary emphasis will be placed on Italy, with additional material from the Netherlands, Germany, and France (with some discussion of England and Spain). Topics to be considered include visual constructions of male and female identity; the functions of works of art and objects of material culture in the lives of Renaissance women and men; female patrons of art and the exceptional women who produced art; erotic art; Renaissance understandings of homoeroticism; and the diverse ways in which gender and sexuality were represented in the visual arts.

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