Costanza Gislon Dopfel

Women, Fertility, and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Women, Fertility and Maternal Art in Renaissance Florence examines maternity-centered art to reveal women's crucial function in saving Florence from a depopulation catastrophe. It appeals to both students and scholars in field of Art History, Renaissance Art and Gender Studies, as well as the general reader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040226445
• Artikelnr.: 72246780

Autorenporträt

Costanza Gislon Dopfel is Professor of Art History at Saint Mary's College of California. Born in Milan, Italy, she received her doctorate from Stanford University. Her recent publications include the edited volumes Nascere (2017), Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Premodern World (2019), and Maternal Materialities: Objects, Rituals and Material Evidence of Medieval and Early Modern Childbirth (2024).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: Maternal Art 1. Mary as Queen 2. Mary as Mother 3. The
Nativity of Jesus 4. St Bridget's Vision 5. The Nativity of Mary PART II:
Society and Art 6. Florence and the Fight for Survival 7. Marriage 8.
Female Visual Epic 9. Children 10. Widows, Nuns, and Patrons