Women and art in early modern Europe
Subtitle: patrons, collectors, and connoisseurs
By: edited by Cynthia Lawrence.
Contributors: Lawrence, Cynthia Miller.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Women art patrons -- Europe -- Biography; Women art collectors -- Europe -- Biography
Description: This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods.

By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally.

While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-259) and index.