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Wives, widows, mistresses, and nuns in early modern Italy : making the invisible visible through art and patronage / edited by Katherine McIver

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Making the invisible visible through art and patronage
Published
Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Copyright Date
©2012
Physical Description
xv, 267 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
McIver, Katherine A.

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Contents
Introduction -- Overshadowed, overlooked, historical invisibility. Hidden in plain sight : Varano and Sforza women of the Marche / Jennifer D. Webb -- Pier Maria's legacy : (il)legitimacy, inheritance, and rule of Parma's Rossi dynasty / Timothy McCall -- Rediscovering the Villa Montalto and the patronage of Camilla Peritti / Kimberly I. Dennis -- Becoming visible through portraiture. Rewriting Lucrezia Borgia : propriety, magnificence, and piety in portraits of a Renaissance duchess / Allyson Burgess Williams -- A face in the crowd : identifying the Dogaressa at the Ospedale dei Crociferi / Mary E. Frank -- Vittoria Colonna and Properzia de Rossi in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the artists / Marjorie Och -- Spatial visibility reconstructed. Revisiting the Renaissance household, in theory and practice : locating wealthy women in sixteenth-century Verona / Alison A. Smith -- An invisible enterprise : women and domestic architecture in early modern Italy / Katherine A. McIver -- Sacred invisibility unveiled. Invisibilia per visibilia : Roman nuns, art patronage, and the construction of identity / Marilyn Dunn -- The Convent of Santa at S. Maria della Sapienza : visual culture and women's religious experience in early modern Naples / Aislinn Loconte.
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9780754669531 (hardcover : alk. paper)
075466953X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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