Synopses & Reviews
This volume considers pictured and picturing women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy as the subjects, creators, patrons, and viewers of art. Women's experiences and needs (perceived by women themselves or defined by men on their behalf) are seen as important determinants in the production and consumption of visual culture. By using a variety of approaches the contributors demonstrate the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach when studying women in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.
Synopsis
Interdisciplinary approach to the history of women and Renaissance and Baroque Italy.
Synopsis
Interdisciplinary approach to the history of women and Renaissance and Baroque Italy.
Table of Contents
Introduction.Women and the visual arts : breaking boundaries /Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Matthews Grieco. --Pt. 1.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. 2.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. 3.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 ;9.Idol or ideal? the power and potency of female public sculpture /Geraldine A. Johnson.