Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire

by Anthony Colantuono

Book Overview

Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation demonstrates that two major monuments of Italian Renaissance culture - Bellini's and Titian's famous series of mytho-poetical paintings for the camerino of Duke Alfonso d'Este of Ferrara, and Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili - were conceived as mnemonic or pedagogical devices aimed at educating the reader/beholder in the medical science of reproductive physiology and the maintenance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138274704
• ISBN13: 9781138274709
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 344 Pages