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Overall, this collection of essays explores new, gendered ground in the firmly rooted classical tradition in Renaissance art, and scholars from art history, literature, and gender studies will all find this book to be informative. The volume sheds much light on an important subject that has not received the attention it deserves from scholars; (...) I have no doubt that future explorations of gendered receptions of antiquity in Renaissance visual culture will draw on the many insights of these essays. Allison Fisher, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 1 As is often found with such books, there is variability among the essays, but the overall quality is excellent.There are numerous figures included within the essays demonstrating the care with which each scholar considered the evidence for their claims.(...) The variety of approaches to the topic of gender in the reception of classical art highlights how fruitful this topic is. The overall effect is the demolition of static, prescriptive notions of gender over the period in question and to demonstrate the multivalence of many classical motifs. Natasha Amendola, The Medieval Review 16.12.12

Overall, this collection of essays explores new, gendered ground in the firmly rooted classical tradition in Renaissance art, and scholars from art history, literature, and gender studies will all find this book to be informative. The volume sheds much light on an important subject that has not received the attention it deserves from scholars; (...) I have no doubt that future explorations of gendered receptions of antiquity in Renaissance visual culture will draw on the many insights of these essays. Allison Fisher, Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 70, Number 1 As is often found with such books, there is variability among the essays, but the overall quality is excellent.There are numerous figures included within the essays demonstrating the care with which each scholar considered the evidence for their claims.(...) The variety of approaches to the topic of gender in the reception of classical art highlights how fruitful this topic is. The overall effect is the demolition of static, prescriptive notions of gender over the period in question and to demonstrate the multivalence of many classical motifs. Natasha Amendola, The Medieval Review 16.12.12

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Marice Rose, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Art History at Fairfield University. She publishes on the topics of classical reception, images of women and slaves in the late Roman empire, and art history pedagogy. Alison C. Poe, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Instructor of Art History at Fairfield University specializing in Roman imperial-era and late antique funerary art and architecture as well as in classical reception. Contributors to this volume are Katherine M. Bentz, Mary Edwards, Genevieve S. Gessert, Hetty Joyce, Claudia Lazzaro, Stephanie C. Leone, Maria F. Maurer, K. Sarah-Jane Murray (with Ashley A. Simone), April Oettinger, Patricia Simons, Timothy Smith and Ian Verstegen.

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