Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just
as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published
research on images of older women belies their significance within
early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering,
largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship to date, of portraits
of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the
second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of
religious reform, the lives of women and the family came under
increasing scrutiny. Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian
Domestic Interior draws on a wide range of primary visual sources,
including portraits, religious images, architectural views, prints
and drawings, as well as extant palazzi and case, furnishings, and
domestic objects created by the leading artists in Bologna,
including Lavinia Fontana, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Denys Calvaert,
and the Carracci. The study also draws on an array of historical
sources - including sixteenth-century theories of portraiture,
prescriptive writings on women and the family, philosophical and
practical treatises on the home economy, sumptuary legislation,
books of secrets, prescriptive writings on old age, and household
inventories - to provide new historical perspectives on the
domestic life of the propertied classes in Bologna during the
period. Author Erin Campbell contends that these images of
unidentified women are not only crucial to our understanding of the
cultural operations of art within the early modern world, but also,
by working from the margins to revise the center, provide an
opportunity to present new conceptual frameworks and question our
assumptions about old age, portraiture, and the domestic interior.
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