Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation
344 Seiten
Hardcover
Erscheinungsdatum 01.09.2010
ISBN 9780754669623
Demonstrates that 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 in the medical science of reproductive physiology.