Review
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
Sharon T. Strocchia, Journal of the History of Sexuality
Talvacchia has produced a marvelous book of potentially broad interest and import. . . .
