Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy

Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage
Herausgeber: Mciver, Katherine A.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By looking in a new way at works of art and acts of patronage, the volume restores to visibility some women who were previously invisible in the historical record, and offers a more nuanced understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern Italy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781138276291
• ISBN-10: 1138276294
• Artikelnr.: 57047430

Autorenporträt

Katherine A. McIver is Professor of Art History at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction; Part I Overshadowed
Overlooked
Historical Invisibility: Hidden in plain sight: Varano and Sforza women of the Marche
Jennifer D. Webb; Pier Maria's legacy: (il)legitimacy
inheritance and rule of Parma's Rossi dynasty
Timothy McCall; Rediscovering the Villa Montalto and the patronage of Camilla Peritti
Kimberly L. Dennis. Part II Becoming Visible through Portraiture: Rewriting Lucrezia Borgia: propriety
magnificence and piety in portraits of a Renaissance duchess
Allyson Burgess Williams; A face in the crowd: identifying the Dogaressa at the Ospedale dei Crociferi
Mary E. Frank; Vittoria Colonna in Giorgio Vasari's Life of Properzia de' Rossi
Marjorie Och. Part III Spatial Visibility Reconstructed: Revisiting the Renaissance household
in theory and practice: locating wealthy women in 16th-century Verona
Alison A. Smith; An invisible enterprise: women and domestic architecture in early modern Italy
Katharine A. McIver. Part IV Sacred Invisibility Unveiled: Invisibilia per visibilia: Roman nuns
art patronage
and the construction of identity
Marilynn Dunn; The convent of Santa Maria della Sapienza: visual culture and women's religious experience in early modern Naples
Aislinn Loconte; Bibliography; Index.