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Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna (Hardcover)
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Women Artists, Their Patrons, and Their Publics in Early Modern Bologna (Hardcover)
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Winner of the 2022 Prose Award (Art History & Criticism) from
the Association of American Publishers This groundbreaking book
seeks to explain why women artists were far more numerous, diverse,
and successful in early modern Bologna than elsewhere in Italy.
They worked as painters, sculptors, printmakers, and embroiderers;
many obtained public commissions and expanded beyond the portrait
subjects to which women were traditionally confined. Babette Bohn
asks why that was the case in this particular place and at this
particular time. Drawing on extensive archival research, Bohn
investigates an astonishing sixty-eight women artists, including
Elisabetta Sirani and Lavinia Fontana. The book identifies and
explores the factors that facilitated their success, including
local biographers who celebrated women artists in new ways, an
unusually diverse system of artistic patronage that included
citizens from all classes, the impact of Bologna’s venerable
university, an abundance of women writers, and the frequency of
self-portraits and signed paintings by many women artists. In
tracing the evolution of Bologna’s female artists from
nun-painters to working professionals, Bohn proposes new
attributions and interpretations of their works, some of which are
reproduced here for the first time. Featuring original
methodological models, innovative and historically grounded
insights, and new documentation, this book will be a crucial
resource for art historians, historians, and women’s studies
scholars and students.
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