In your face : professional improprieties and the art of being conspicuous in sixteenth-century Italy / Douglas Biow.

Author/creator Biow, Douglas
Format Book
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2010.
Descriptionxviii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Electronic LocationInhaltsverzeichnis
Subjects
Personality and creative ability--Italy. --History. --16th century.
Artists--Italy. --History. --16th century.
Authors, Italian--16th century.
Eccentrics and eccentricities--Italy. --History. --16th century.
Italy--Civilization. --16th century.

Contents Baldassar Castiglione and the art of being inconspicuously conspicuous -- Pietro Aretino and the art of conspicuous consumption -- Michelangelo Buonarroti and the art of conspicuous absorption -- Benvenuto Cellini and the art of conspicuous production -- Anton Francesco Doni and the art of conspicuous reproduction.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Biow, Douglas. In your face. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2010
LCCN 2008053118
ISBN9780804762151 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804762155 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780804762168 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0804762163 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40017481471