Imagining and Reimagining Gender
Boccaccio’s Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia and Its Renaissance Visual Legacy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20249237 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Franklin (Pearson (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h5010006 |
| OpenAlex | W2236786359 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
Giovanni Boccaccio’s Teseida delle nozze d’Emilia (1339–1341?) is an innovative vernacular text in which Teseo (Theseus) and the Scythian Amazons are reinvented as antagonists in a war fought to determine how women are meant to live their lives. Boccaccio’s characterization of these figures and their interactions offer an effective counter-narrative to the prevailing ethos that women’s inborn proclivities and deficiencies preclude, perforce, their participation in the public arena. In the absence of written criticism, cassone (marriage chest) paintings constitute the quattrocento Nachleben of the text, whose readership comprised a wide swath of the literate populace through the 15th century. I will argue that painters, in conjunction with their patrons and humanist advisors, fashioned Teseida visual narratives that undermined Boccaccio’s vision of the potential of women to productively and autonomously engage in the governance of successful societies
Art · Art history · The Renaissance · Visual arts · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |