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Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua - Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua - Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Analyzing the artistic patronage of famous and lesser known women
of Renaissance Mantua, and introducing new patronage paradigms that
existed among those women, this study sheds new light on the
social, cultural and religious impact of the cult of female mystics
of that city in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century.
Author Sally Hickson combines primary archival research, contextual
analysis of the climate of female mysticism, and a re-examination
of a number of visual objects (particularly altarpieces devoted to
local beatae, saints and female founders of religious orders) to
delineate ties between women both outside and inside the convent
walls. The study contests the accepted perception of Isabella
d'Este as a purely secular patron, exposing her role as a religious
patron as well. Hickson introduces the figure of Margherita
Cantelma and documents concerning the building and decoration of
her monastery on the part of Isabella d'Este; and draws attention
to the cultural and political activities of nuns of the Gonzaga
family, particularly Isabella's daughter Livia Gonzaga who became a
powerful agent in Mantuan civic life. Women, Art and Architectural
Patronage in Renaissance Mantua provides insight into a complex and
fluid world of sacred patronage, devotional practices and religious
roles of secular women as well as nuns in Renaissance Mantua.
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