Visualizing Boccaccio: Studies on Illustrations of the Decameron, from Giotto to Pasolini (Cambridge Studies in New Art History and Criticism)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 7/3/1997
EAN 9780521496001, ISBN10: 0521496004
Hardcover, 228 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Originally published in 1997, Visualizing Boccaccio represents an intriguing approach to the interpretation of Boccaccio's classic book of erotic tales, The Decameron. Using literary, critical, psychoanalytic, and film theories, Jill Ricketts offers a feminist critique of these stories, exposing tensions generated by sexual difference that motivate privilege and investigating the possibilities of change in power relations associated with that privilege. In a comparison of selected tales from The Decameron with works by Cimabue and Giotto, fifteenth-century manuscript illumination, a series of paintings by Botticelli, and Pier Paolo Pasolini's cinematic interpretation of the tales, Ricketts also demonstrates how the juxtaposition of verbal and visual renditions permit new interpretation of each of these works.
1. Beastly Gualtieri
another audience for the Tale of Griselda
2. Illuminating metaphors
the tale of Tancredi, Ghismunda and Guiscardo
3. Boccaccio, Botticelli and the tale of Nastagio
the subversion of visuality by painting
4. Imaginative artistry
Giotto, Boccaccio and Pasolini
5. Living pictures
high art pastiche and the cruising gaze in Pasolini's Decameron.