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Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy - Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (Hardcover, New edition)
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Wives, Widows, Mistresses, and Nuns in Early Modern Italy - Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Through a visually oriented investigation of historical
(in)visibility in early modern Italy, the essays in this volume
recover those women - wives, widows, mistresses, the illegitimate -
who have been erased from history in modern literature, rendered
invisible or obscured by history or scholarship, as well as those
who were overshadowed by male relatives, political accident, or
spatial location. A multi-faceted invisibility of the individual
and of the object is the thread that unites the chapters in this
volume. Though some women chose to be invisible, for example the
cloistered nun, these essays show that in fact, their voices are
heard or seen through their commissions and their patronage of the
arts, which afforded them some visibility. Invisibility is also
examined in terms of commissions which are no longer extant or are
inaccessible. What is revealed throughout the essays is a new way
of looking at works of art, a new way to visualize the past by
addressing representational invisibility, the marginalized or
absent subject or object and historical (in)visibility to discover
who does the 'looking,' and how this shapes how something or
someone is visible or invisible. The result is a more nuanced
understanding of the place of women and gender in early modern
Italy.
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