Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 26 December 2019
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350169982
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 376 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 bw illus 73
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Long description:
Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a source of mockery? Was the graceful courtier virile or effeminate? How could a man dress for court without bankrupting himself? This book explores the whole story of clothing, from the tailor's workshop to spectacular court festivities, to show how the male nobility in one of Italy's main textile production centers used their appearances to project social, sexual, and professional identities.
Sixteenth-century male fashion is often associated with swagger and ostentation but this book shows that Florentine clothing reflected manhood at a much deeper level, communicating a very Italian spectrum of male virtues and vices, from honor, courage, and restraint to luxury and excess. Situating dress at the heart of identity formation, Currie traces these codes through an array of sources, including unpublished archival records, surviving garments, portraiture, poetry, and personal correspondence between the Medici and their courtiers.
Addressing important themes such as gender, politics, and consumption, Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence sheds fresh light on the sartorial culture of the Florentine court and Italy as a whole.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on the Text
Introduction
Part 1 Fashioning the Medici Court
Chapter 1 The Court on Show
Chapter 2 The Rise and Fall of the Florentine Toga
Part 2 The Courtier as Consumer
Chapter 3 The Noble Art of Shopping
Chapter 4 Ruinous Appearances
Part 3 Modes of Masculinity
Chapter 5 The Versatility of Black
Chapter 6 Youth, Fashion, and Desire
Chapter 7 Festive Dress
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
