Wives, widows, mistresses, and nuns in early modern Italy
Subtitle: making the invisible visible through art and patronage
By: edited by Katherine McIver
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754669531
Subjects: Art patronage; Art and society; History; Women art patrons; Women
Other titles: Making the invisible visible through art and patronage
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Overshadowed, overlooked, historical invisibility. Hidden in plain sight : Varano and Sforza women of the Marche / Jennifer D. Webb; title: Pier Maria's legacy : (il)legitimacy, inheritance, and rule of Parma's Rossi dynasty / Timothy McCall; title: Rediscovering the Villa Montalto and the patronage of Camilla Peritti / Kimberly I. Dennis; title: Becoming visible through portraiture. Rewriting Lucrezia Borgia : propriety, magnificence, and piety in portraits of a Renaissance duchess / Allyson Burgess Williams; title: A face in the crowd : identifying the Dogaressa at the Ospedale dei Crociferi / Mary E. Frank; title: Vittoria Colonna and Properzia de Rossi in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists / Marjorie Och; title: Spatial visibility reconstructed. Revisiting the Renaissance household, in theory and practice : locating wealthy women in sixteenth-century Verona / Alison A. Smith; title: An invisible enterprise : women and domestic architecture in early modern Italy / Katherine A. McIver; title: Sacred invisibility unveiled. Invisibilia per visibilia : Roman nuns, art patronage, and the construction of identity / Marilyn Dunn; title: The Convent of Santa at S. Maria della Sapienza : visual culture and women's religious experience in early modern Naples / Aislinn Loconte.