 | In Your Face: Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy Subjects: Italy -- Civilization -- 16th century; Personality and creative ability -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Artists -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; Authors Italian -- 16th century; Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; 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. 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). |
