Titian, Colonna and the Renaissance Science of Procreation (Visual Culture in Early Modernity)

by Anthony Colantuono (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $171.51

  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.