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Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy

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Adrian Randolph, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Sara F. Matthews Grieco, Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Caroline P. Murphy, Franca Trinchieri Camiz, Megan Holmes, Chad Coerver, Geraldine A. Johnson
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  • Date Published: December 1997
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521565806

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  • This 1997 volume considers pictured and picturing women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy as the subjects, creators, patrons and viewers of art. Art itself is broadly defined to include not only painting, sculpture and architecture, but also popular prints and domestic objects. Women's experiences and needs (as perceived by women themselves and as defined by men on their behalf) are seen as important determinants in the production and consumption of visual culture. How the real and ideal lives of women - nuns, brides, mothers, widows, artists, saints, sinners - are reflected in, and to some extent shaped by, works of art is also explored. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this collection seeks to examine the art histories of women in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

    • First collection to deal specifically with women as subjects, creators, patrons and viewers of art
    • Examines a wide range of art objects (paintings, frescoes, sculpture, and architecture, popular prints and craft objects)
    • Interdisciplinary approach
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    Awards

    • Winner of the 1997 prize for the Best Interdisciplinary Book from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
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    Reviews & endorsements

    '… a very valuable contribution to an expanding field.' Paolo Tinagli, Burlington Magazine

    'The essays are uniformly well-written … ' Archiv für Reformationsgeeschichte

    'A thoughtful and impartial examination of the intertwined spheres of womanhood and art in their many and varied spheres and functions.' The Australian National Review

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    • Date Published: December 1997
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521565806
    • length: 338 pages
    • dimensions: 224 x 170 x 18 mm
    • weight: 0.54kg
    • contains: 84 b/w illus.
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Part 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
    Part 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
    Part 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
    9. Idol or ideal? The power and potency of female public sculpture Geraldine A. Johnson
    Notes
    Index.

  • Editors

    Geraldine A. Johnson, University of Oxford

    Sara F. Matthews Grieco, Syracuse University, New York

    Contributors

    Adrian Randolph, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Sara F. Matthews Grieco, Mary-Ann Winkelmes, Caroline P. Murphy, Franca Trinchieri Camiz, Megan Holmes, Chad Coerver, Geraldine A. Johnson

    Awards

    • Winner of the 1997 prize for the Best Interdisciplinary Book from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women
    • The chapter Pedagogical Prints also received an Honorable Mention in the category of Best Article 1998.

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