Description: This revised edition is greatly expanded by the addition of new images, as well as some pointedly definitive responses to critical objects aroused by publication of the first edition. The author presses the original theological argument ...
Synopsis This revised edition is greatly expanded by the addition of new images, as well as some pointedly definitive responses to critical objects aroused by publication of the first edition. The author presses the original theological argument at greater depth in attempting to draw implications from the sexuality of Christ in Renaissance art.
Details
Publication Date:
1983-01-01
Edition Description:
Illustrated
Size
Length:
222 pages
Publisher's Note Analyzes the sexual aspects of the representations of the body of Jesus Christ in the paintings and sculpture of the Renaissance.
Industry Reviews "[Steinberg] has achieved something original, and offered unignorable explanations of a body of rather mystifying evidence..." London Review of Books - Frank Kermode (04/03/1997)