Saints, Sinners, and Sisters
Subtitle: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Contributors: Jane L. Carroll (Editor); Alison G. Stewart (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780754605898
Subjects: Gender studies; Medieval art; Social history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; Europe, Northern; Art, Baroque; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Germany; Netherlands; Subjects & Themes - General; Subjects & Themes - Religious; Art, Late Gothic; Art, Renaissance; Women in art
First sentence: The story of Lucretia, the Roman heroine who stabbed herself in the breast following her rape by Sextus Tarquin, became a topos of female virtue for Medieval and Renaissance Europe.