Renaissance Quarterly, September 22nd, 2006
Stephen J. Campbell. The Cabinet of Eros: Renaissance Mythological Painting and the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. viii + 402 pp. index, append. illus. bibl. $60. ISBN: 0-300-1 1753-1.
Stephen J. Campbell's exemplary new book investigates the imagery of classical mythology and its place in Renaissance court society. It focuses on the studiolo of Isabella d'Este, a figure who has long stood at the center of discussions of art and court culture on account of her much-studied collection of antiquities and mythological paintings. While the vast quantity of...
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