Title: Women artists, their patrons, and their publics in early modern Bologna /
Authors: Bohn, Babette, 1950-
Year: 2021
Subjects: Women artists Italy Bologna History.; Art, Italian Italy Bologna.; Art, Italian; Women artists; Italy Bologna
Abstract: "Examines sixty-eight women artists in early modern Bologna, revealing how they obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Uses new methodological models for considering gender and art in early modern Italy"--
Contents: Early writers -- Beginnings -- Elisabetta Sirani -- Sirani's successors -- Patronage and collecting -- Signatures and self-fashioning -- Drawings and prints.