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• Title:Women and the visual arts in Italy, c. 1400-1650. Luxury and leisure, duty and devotion : a sourcebook. / selected, translated and introduced by Paola Tinagli and Mary Rogers.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Tinagli, Paola.
  Rogers, Mary, 1929-
  
• Published/Created:Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6915.5 .W66 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art, Italian--15th century.
  Art, Italian--16th century.
  Art, Italian--17th century.
  Art--Italy--History.
  
• Description:x, 358 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated from 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 reader 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780719080982 (hardback)
  0719080983 (hardback)
  9780719080999 (pbk.)
  0719080991 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I material worlds of women
  1. Buildings and interiors
  2. Beauty, quality and elegance: objects in the house
  3. Clothes: legislation, descriptions and uses
  4. Ceremony and travel: female participants and observers
  pt. II Women, secular art and artists: commissioning, buying, preserving
  5. building and embellishment of palaces, villas and gardens
  6. Women acquiring and using portraits
  7. Relationships with artists
  pt. III Women, devotion and art
  8. Private devotion
  9. Communal devotion: spectacles, rituals, miraculous images and pilgrimages
  10. Public devotional patronage: personal and collective
  pt. IV Female artists, craftswomen and writers
  11. Female artists and craftswomen
  12. Women writing on art and artefacts.