Heaven and the Flesh: Imagery of Desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo

by Clive Hart and Kay Gilliland Stevenson

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Do angels make love? Will the souls of ordinary people feel sexual pleasure in the next world? Is the aspiration to spiritual salvation helped or hindered by sexual experience? In Heaven and the Flesh Clive Hart and Kay Stevenson explore the opinions of poets and painters on such questions, from the high Renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Hart and Stevenson analyse the work not only of canonical writers and artists, such as Milton and Michelangelo,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521070945

ISBN13:9780521070942

Release Date:August 2008

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:0.91 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections

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