Bette Talvacchia is Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut. She has published widely on topics in Renaissance art and gender studies.
"This beautifully produced book is courageous in addressing aspects
of the subject without without moralising or coyness."
*Burlington Magazine*
"[Talvacchia] does an admirable job of setting the whole
extraordinary episode [of Roman printmaking] in its historical
context."
*Apollo Magazine*
"In Taking Positions, Bette Talvacchia pieces together the
dispersed fragments of the sixteen Modi, and with the same
reconstructive skill she recomposes the society of the 1520s in
which they were produced. . . . [A] fine essay."---Ingrid Rowland,
The New York Review of Books
"Talvacchia has produced a marvelous book of potentially broad
interest and import that honors both scholarly rigor and the visual
pleasures of eroticism."---Sharon T. Strocchia, Journal of the
History of Sexuality
"Talvacchia's particular contribution has been to reconstruct the
material history of I modi through impeccable research, addressing
questions of documentation, authorship, style, and form, and
broadening this more canonical approach by integrating critical
considerations around the issue of gender and the question of the
impact of old and new media in Renaissance Italy. . . . [A] model
of interdisciplinary research in the arena of Renaissance
studies."---Sara F. Matthews-Grieco, CAA.Reviews
"Bette Talvacchia does some adroit scholarly detective work. . . .
Taking Positions gives us the era at its mostly engagingly
bawdy."---Ann Landi, ArtNews
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