| Description |
xiv, 321 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Women and the Visual Arts: Breaking Boundaries / Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Matthews Grieco -- Pt. I. Envisioning Women's Lives. 1. Regarding Women in Sacred Space / Adrian Randolph. 2. Imaginative Conceptions in Renaissance Italy / Jacqueline Marie Musacchio. 3. Pedagogical Prints: Moralizing Broadsheets and Wayward Women in Counter Reformation Italy / Sara F. Matthews Grieco -- Pt. II. Creative Careers: Women as Artists and Patrons. 4. Taking Part: Benedictine Nuns as Patrons of Art and Architecture / Mary-Ann Winkelmes. 5. Lavinia Fontana and Female Life Cycle Experience in Late Sixteenth-Century Bologna / Caroline P. Murphy. 6. Virgo-non sterilis...": Nuns as Artists in Seventeenth-Century Rome / Franca Trinchieri Camiz -- Pt. III. Female Bodies in the Language of Art. 7. Disrobing the Virgin: The Madonna lactans in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Art / Megan Holmes. 8. Donna/Dono: Chivalry and Adulterous Exchange in the Quattrocento / Chad Coerver |
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9. Idol or Ideal? The Power and Potency of Female Public Sculpture / Geraldine A. Johnson -- Index / Heather R. Lee |
| Summary |
Considers pictured and picturing women in Italy as the subjects, creators, patrons and viewers of art - Art includes architecture, painting and sculpture and also popular prints and domestic objects - Women in the Renaissance |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art, Baroque -- Italy.
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Art, Italian.
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Art, Renaissance -- Italy.
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Women artists -- Italy.
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Women in art.
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| Author |
Johnson, Geraldine A.
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Matthews Grieco, Sara F.
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| LC no. |
96051101 |
| ISBN |
0521562767 (hb) |
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0521565804 (pb) |
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