Women and the Visual Arts in Italy c. 1400-1650 - Luxury and Leisure, Duty and Devotion: a Sourcebook (Paperback)

The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated form Italian or Latin, and accompanied by introductions and bibliographies, is concerned with women's varied involvement with the visual arts and material culture of their day. The readers gains a sense of women not only as patrons of architecture, painting, sculpture and the applied arts, but as users of art both on special occasions, like civic festivities or pilgrimages, and in everyday social and devotional life. As they seek to adapt and embellish their persons and their environments, acquire paintings for solace or prestige, or cultivate relationships with artists, women emerge as discerning participants in the consumer culture of their time, and often as lively commentators on it. Their fervent participation in religious life is also seen in their use of art in devotional rituals, or their commissioning of tombs or altarpieces to perpetuate their memory and aid them in the afterlife. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2012
First published:	December 2012
Editors:	Mary Rogers • Paola Tinagli
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	358
ISBN-13:	978-0-7190-8099-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1400 to 1600 > Renaissance art > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7190-8099-1
Barcode:	9780719080999

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