Péter Bokody: The Politicization of Rape: Giotto's Allegory of Injustice in Padua
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Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square
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'The Politicization of Rape: Giotto's Allegory of Injustice in Padua' suggests that the allegory of Injustice in the Arena Chapel (Padua) by Giotto and the allegory of War in the Palazzo Pubblico (Siena) by Ambrogio Lorenzetti are key allegorical images of rape which can offer critical and politicized representations of sexual violence without sanitizing or eroticizing the act. Their unparalleled representations of sexual violence have implications for a general history of rape and the visual culture of late-medieval Italy.
The Department of History of Art at Birkbeck presents a series of seminars on medieval and renaissance art, supported by the bequest established in memory of Professor Peter Murray, the Department's founder.
See the full Murray Seminar programme for Spring Term 2017 here.