Iconologia francescana - il Quattrocento

Anna Caterina Toni
Multigrafica editrice

Renzo Grandi
Galleria d'Arte Moderna

Jean Guiart
Rizzoli Editore

Regione del Veneto. Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Marsilio Editori

Il volume costituisce il catalogo della mostra "Venezia da Stato a Mito" (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 30 agosto - 30 novembre 1997) che ripercorre, in occasione del secondo centenario della fine della Repubblica, la storia e il destino di Venezia attraverso l'arte, dal Rinascimento ai giorni nostri.

Giovanni Ludovico Bianconi
Minerva Edizioni

Elisa Debenedetti
Multigrafica Editrice

Seizieme Annee, Zestiende Jaargang
s.a.

Leonardo Sciascia
Kalós

Dino Campini
Nuedi. Nuova editrice italiana

Angela Vettese
Allemandi

Isabella Villafranca Soissons
Marsilio Editori s.p.a.

Germaine Greer
Thames & Hudson Ltd.

Conventional wisdom has it that in visual culture the female body, not the male, is viewed as the primary object of desire. Germaine Greer argues that until the nineteenth century the image of the female body was not drawn from life but constructed on aesthetic principles. The naked body that was instead studied and portrayed with heart-stopping immediacy in hundreds of guises, most of them to some extent erotic, some of them sadistic, is that of the boy. In exploring the iconic ideal of the beautiful boy, Germaine Greer demolishes one of the last Western taboos. With over two hundred images drawn from the whole history of Western art, illustrating the vicissitudes of the beautiful male - as toy boy, virgin soldier, naked martyr or winged genius, angel or seducer, narcissist or worshipper - they are invited to appreciate boys in all their sensuality, spontaneity and vulnerability.