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- Andersson, Maj-Britt, 1955-
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Caravaggios queera allegori om alkemi
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 18:2, s. 79-92
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Det kan förefalla omöjligt att tillfoga något nytt om konstnärer som Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rafael och Caravaggio som det skrivits så oändligt mycket om. Men än finns det förbisedda verk och verk att återupptäcka. Ett sådant är den ganska okända takmålning från omkring 1599 av Caravaggio, i ett litet sidorum, en studerkammare, i Casino Ludovisi i Rom. Målningen återupptäcktes 2010 då 400-års- minnet av Caravaggios död uppmärksammades med utställningar och visningar av hans verk i kyrkor, museer och privat ägo. Den visas nu efter tidsbokning och mot en större avgift. ”Estremamente potente”, ex- tremt kraftfull, brukar besökare utbrista om målningen med molnig himmel och en sfär med zodiaken, omgiven av tre nakna män. Männen har identifierats som ett trippelsjälvporträtt av Caravaggio som gudarna Jupiter, Neptunus och Pluto (bild 1) i ett komplext kultur- och naturve- tenskapligt program som handlar om alkemi. Med queert läckage, ska det här tilläggas. I det följande kommer jag att redogöra för hur detta program också involverar ett dåtida normsystem kring sexualitet.
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- Andersson, Maj-Britt, 1955-
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Machiavelli utmanar Foucault med renässansmålaren Sebastiano del Piombo som vapendragare.
- 2009
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Stockholm : Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 14:1, s. 25-41
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In Spring 2008 Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547) was dedicated an exhibition in Rome, where he was introduced from Venice by the banker Agostino Chigi in Villa Farnesina 1511. The painting L´uomo in armi (1511-1512) was the poster for the exhibition and most probably a self-portrait. It is similar to the unidentified portrait Testa di giovane by Peruzzi in grisaille in the Villa Farnesina. With a queer perspective it proposes Sebastiano del Piombo as a lover of Agostino Chigi parallell with the young spouse Francesca Ordeaschi portrayed as Dorotea (1511-1512). After the death of Rafael in 1520 Sebastiano del Piombo was considered the most skilful painter in Rome. His many majestic homoerotic portraits with virtù correspond to the results of Guido Ruggiero in Machiavelli in love, sex, self and society in he Italian Renaissance (2007) about sexual identities and selfrepresentation in different consensusrealities. Ruggiero is inspired by Foucault and discusses masculinity rereading private letters by the Florentine politician Niccolò Machiavelli and contemporary literature. The exhibition of Sebastiano del Piombo was esthetically impressive but did not answer questions from a modern visitor. The catalogue is imposing but fatally prim avoiding the sex, self and society in Renaissance Rome and Venice so obvious in the art of Sebastaino del Piombo.
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- Andersson, Maj-Britt, 1955-
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Varför hålls Agnes Andersson tillbaka?
- 2008
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Stockholm : Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 13:3, s. 58-68
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article presents the photographers Mathilda Ranch (1860-1938) in the town of Varberg in the south of Sweden and Agnes Andersson (1865-1958) in the parish of Alfta in north of Sweden. In their lifetime Sweden was changing into the industrial era introducing new professions beyond gender connotations. Individuals desiring independence found new lifestyles. Ranch and Andersson both lived in their own houses and never married. As photographers they lived in a modern zone where they could reject a compulsory heteronormative partnership. In Varberg, people said that Mathilda Ranch did not like men, due to her inferior social position as an unmarried woman. In Alfta, there was a silence concerning the familylife of Agnes Andersson although her "foster daughter" took over the atelier. Agnes Andersson is an appreciated photographer and parishoner, but as "Mathilda" in Varberg often intimately diminished as "Agnes" and far from fame outside Alfta. Why is Agnes Andersson held back?
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- Andersson, Maj-Britt, 1955-
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Villa Farnesina och Sodoma : konstvetenskapens heteronormativitet marginaliserad
- 2007
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In: Lambda Nordica. - Stockholm : Lambda Nordica. - 1100-2573 .- 2001-7286. ; 12:3, s. 33-60
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Villa Farnesina in Trastevere in Rome, built 1506-1511 for the rich banker Agostino Chigi from Siena is a Sienese Renaissance-villa in which noble and harmonious architecture and pictorial decoration fuse into a synthesis. The sober volumetric and spatial articulation of the Villa, devised by the architect, painter and theatrical designer Baldassare Peruzzi from Siena, is a perfect setting for the rich decorative programme of the interior frescoed by great masters as Raphael, Sebastiano del Piombo, Peruzzi himself and Giovanni Antonio Bazzi, known as Sodoma. Villa Farnesina was built as a permanent and representative habitation for Chigi and his young spouse Francesca Ordeaschi whom he married in 1519, framed by frescoes with evident allusions to the glory of the banker, the ancient world, eroticism and love. The bedchamber that was to receive the spouses was the most intimate room in the Villa. Chigi wanted to allude to its function and commissioned the decoration from Bazzi, whose nickname derived from his habits. Beneath a magnificent coffered ceiling with erotic motifs he decorated the walls with a fresco cycle showing the wedding of Alexander the Great and his bride Roxana. The centerpiece of the narrative is the scene of the imminent consummation of the marriage, assisted by two men who are Alexander´s lover and the god of marriage. The decoration programme of Villa Farnesina reveals sexual norms, values and conventions, which can also be seen in the context of Sodoma´s work in Siena, where he married and settled down after leaving his commitment Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican to Raphael. Influenced by Raphael and Michelangelo he successfully introduced la maniera moderna from Rome, including a spectacular personal lifestyle. Sodoma´s work is characterized by a striking sensual homoerotic charisma. In the Sienese frescocycles in Abbazia Monte Oliveto Maggiore, Oratorio di San Bernardino, the church of San Domenico women as well as men are flirting with each other. He had committments in prestigious environments as Palazzo Comunale, the Cathedral, Santa Maria della Scala, palaces and churches all over the republic of Siena. The organization of sexuality in his home-town seem to have given Sodoma a more solid artistic and social reputation than among art historians of the 20th century. Art history is a prim bourgeois discipline, which except for some Renaissance-experts in the 19th century focusing on the Florentine Renaissance has marginalized this Sienese eminent notorious Renaissance-artist. A queer, ethnological and historical reading of Villa Farnesina in Rome and initial impression of the sexual context of Sodoma´s work in the republic of Siena of the 16th century indicates a considerable appreciation of his homoerotic work as well as his personal image. Above all it reveals a flagrant heteronormativity and its mechanisms in the discipline of Art History in the 20th century, marginalized by Sodoma in Villa Farnesina.
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