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Author Hickson, Sally Anne

Title Women, Art and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Mantua : Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages)
Series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
Women and gender in the early modern world.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Saints and the City; 1 Popular Devotion: Isabella dâ#x80;#x99;Este, the Beata Osanna and Depictions of Female Sanctity in Mantua; 2 Friendship and Devotion: Margherita Cantelma and Isabella dâ#x80;#x99;Este; 3 Partners in Piety: Margherita Cantelma, Isabella dâ#x80;#x99;Este and the Monastery of Santa Maria della Presentazione in Tempio in Mantua; 4 Daughters of Devotion: Suor Ippolita and Suor Paola Gonzaga in Mantua
5 Gonzaga Family Piety and Sisterly Affection: Margherita Paleologa, First Duchess of MantuaAppendix I: Wills; Appendix II: Selected Letters of Isabella dâ#x80;#x99;Este and Margherita Cantelma; Appendix III: Selected Letters of Margherita Paleologa; Bibliography
Summary 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 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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Subject Architecture, Renaissance -- Italy -- Mantua
Art and society -- Italy -- Mantua
Art patronage -- Italy -- Mantua
Art, Renaissance -- Italy -- Mantua
Christian art and symbolism -- Italy -- Mantua
Gonzaga family -- Art patronage
Isabella d''Este, -- consort of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, -- 1474-1539 -- Art patronage
Art and society
Art patronage
Christian art and symbolism
Italy
Italy -- Mantua
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134777440
1134777442