Multimedia Conversations: Love and Lovesickness in Sixteenth-century Italian Single-sheet Prints

Abstract

Engaging in a conversation with sixteenth-century prints, this chapter explores how particular Italian prints were designed to generate everyday conversations about love and lovesickness with the audience observing them. Through a close analysis of the images, but also the texts added to the pictures, the chapter shows the ways in which an envisioned narrator dissected the themes in classical allegories intended for display in private homes. Kocsis demonstrates how prints focusing on love engaged in a multisensorial conversation with the viewer.