Gendered Allegories of Power and Warfare: Warrior Women as Personifications

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_19235
dc.contributor.author	Stafferini Elisa
dc.title	Gendered Allegories of Power and Warfare: Warrior Women as Personifications in Early Modern Art
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This article investigates the reinterpretation of warlike geographical personifications during the early modern period, focusing on sixteenth-century Italian painting. It analyses, through case studies, the ancient origin of these predominantly feminine allegories, the circumstances in which they appeared in painting and the role played by warfare in their proliferation. Additionally, the study investigates the gender dynamics involved, emphasizing how the visual portrayal of cities, countries, and republics as women positioned them metaphorically as mothers, lovers, wives, or maidens within rhetorical discourses and propagandistic imagery.
dc.relation.ispartof	Quaderni di Venezia Arti
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.issued	2023-12-22
dc.dateAccepted	2023-10-30
dc.dateSubmitted	2023-09-17
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-771-5/gendered-allegories-of-power-and-warfare-warrior-w/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/007
dc.identifier.eissn	2784-8868
dc.identifier.isbn
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-771-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Allegory
dc.subject	Gendered bodies
dc.subject	Geographical personifications
dc.subject	Iconography
dc.subject	Politics
dc.subject	Sixteenth-century Italian art
dc.subject	Warfare

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Gendered Allegories of Power and Warfare: Warrior Women as Personifications in Early Modern Art

Elisa Stafferini The Warburg Institute, UK

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This article investigates the reinterpretation of warlike geographical personifications during the early modern period, focusing on sixteenth-century Italian painting. It analyses, through case studies, the ancient origin of these predominantly feminine allegories, the circumstances in which they appeared in painting and the role played by warfare in their proliferation. Additionally, the study investigates the gender dynamics involved, emphasizing how the visual portrayal of cities, countries, and republics as women positioned them metaphorically as mothers, lovers, wives, or maidens within rhetorical discourses and propagandistic imagery.

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Dec. 22, 2023

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Oct. 30, 2023

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Sept. 17, 2023

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978-88-6969-771-5

Keywords: Iconography • Gendered bodies • Sixteenth-century Italian art • Allegory • Politics • Warfare • Geographical personifications

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