Women, art and architectural patronage in Renaissance Mantua
Subtitle: matrons, mystics and monasteries
By: Sally Anne Hickson
Series: Women and gender in the early modern world; Women and gender in the early modern world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781409427520; 9781409427537
Subjects: Renaissance Art; Women art patrons; Christian art and symbolism; Christian women saints; Renaissance Architecture; Art and society; Cult; Church architecture; Art patronage
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Saints and the city; title: Popular devotion : Isabella d'Este, the Beata Osanna Andreasi and depictions of female sanctity in Mantua; title: Friendship and devotion : Margherita Cantelma and Isabella d'Este; title: Partners in piety : Margherita Cantelma, Isabella d'Este, and the Monastery of Santa Maria della Presentazione in Tempio in Mantua; title: Daughters of devotion : Suor Ippolita Gonzaga and Suor Paola Gonzaga in Mantua; title: Gonzaga family piety and sisterly affection : Margherita Paleologa, first Duchess of Mantua; title: Appendix I. Wills; title: Appendix II. Selected letters of Isabella d'Este and Margherita Cantelma; title: Appendix III. Selected letters of Margherita Paleologa.