Heaven and the flesh : imagery of desire from the Renaissance to the Rococo
Heaven and the Flesh is an illustrated study of the relationship between sexual desire and spiritual ascension in art and writing from the high renaissance to the birth of romanticism. Conceived in a genuinely interdisciplinary mode, this wide-ranging survey offers sometimes surprising insights into material both familiar and unfamiliar.
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1995
Erotica
xiv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
9780521495714, 0521495717
32014995
Sexuality and ascension
finding the way
The woman on top
Christ, Endymion, Ganymede
Paradisiacal bosoms
Imparadised in one another's arms
Heaven and the flesh
The body and ascension in the sacred rococo art of southern Germany and Austria
The assumption and its transformations
Conclusion
Jacob's ladder and Keats's Endymion
Appendix