Women and the visual arts in Italy c. 1400–1650: Luxury and leisure, duty and devotion: A sourcebook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719080991 ISBN 13: 9780719080999

Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2012

Synopsis

The anthology of original sources from c.1400 to 1650, translated form 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 readers 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Rogers has published widely on Italian visual representations of women in relation to the writing of the day|Paola Tinagli is author of Women in Italian Renaissance art (MUP 1997) and live and works in Italy

Review:

"Tinagli and Rogers's array of documents are of value to students and scholars alike, as they facilitate our understanding of women as both participants and contributors to Italian" -- Renaissance culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0719080991
• ISBN 13: 9780719080999
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 358
• Editor: Rogers Mary, Tinagli Paola