Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Marice Rose and Alison C. Poe -- Introduction: Classical Reception, Gender Studies, and Art History / Marice Rose and Alison C. Poe -- 1: Cross-Dressing in the Arena Chapel: Giotto’s Virtue Fortitude Re-examined / Mary D. Edwards -- 2: The Liminal Feminine: Illuminating Europa in the Ovide Moralisé / K. Sarah-Jane Murray and Ashley A. Simone -- 3: A Giant Corrupt Body: The Gendering of Renaissance Roma / Genevieve S. Gessert -- 4: Luca Signorelli’s Veturia Persuading Coriolanus to Spare Rome and Viewers in the Palazzo Petrucci, Siena / Stephanie C. Leone -- 5: Queer Fragments: Sodoma, the Belvedere Torso, and Saint Catherine’s Head / Timothy B. Smith -- 6: The Trouble with Pasiphaë: Engendering a Myth at the Gonzaga Court / Maria F. Maurer -- 7: Vision, Voluptas, and the Poetics of Water in Lorenzo Lotto’s Venus and Cupid / April Oettinger -- 8: The Crone, the Witch, and the Library: The Intersection of Classical Fantasy with Christian Vice during the Italian Renaissance / Patricia Simons -- 9: Picturing Rape and Revenge in Ovid’s Myth of Philomela / Hetty E. Joyce -- 10: Figuring Florence: Gendered Bodies in Sixteenth-Century Personifications and Their Antique Models / Claudia Lazzaro -- 11: Conjugal Piety: Creusa in Barocci’s Aeneas’ Flight from Troy / Ian Verstegen -- 12: Ancient Idols, Lascivious Statues, and Sixteenth-Century Viewers in Roman Gardens / Katherine M. Bentz -- Index / Marice Rose and Alison C. Poe.

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Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600 presents scholarship in classical reception at its nexus with art history and gender studies. It considers the ways that artists, patrons, collectors, and viewers in late medieval and early modern Europe used ancient Greek and Roman art, texts, myths, and history to interact with and shape notions of gender. The essays examine Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes, Michelangelo's Medici Chapel personifications, Giulio Romano's decoration of the Palazzo del Te, and other famous and lesser-known sculptures, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and domestic objects as well as displays of ancient art. Visual responses to antiquity in this era, the volume demonstrates, bore a complex and significant relationship to the construction of, and challenges to, contemporary gender norms.