Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy (Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies)
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Review “In fourteen substantial essays Reiss, Wilkins, and their collaborators offer rich new evidence for the activity of secular women in the production and reception of Italian Renaissance art, calling into serious question traditional stereotypes of female patronage and reconceptualizing art patronage itself.”—Renaissance Quarterly“The literature assessing the importance of women in visual culture has tended to find the quintessential woman patron in Isabella d’Este. This stimulating and informative collection of essays, each a detailed case study, opens up the subject with a broad chronological and geographical span. Intriguing and relatively unknown women patrons are introduced into the literature.... Well-known women patrons are treated from new points of view, and even Isabella herself gets a new slant, seen here as fueled in her artistic enterprises by rivalry with her husband.... An important contribution to the literature, certain to have heavy use in the classroom.”—Choice Read more About the Author Sheryl E. Reiss is Senior Research Associate in the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Cornell University. She has published articles in the Zeitschrift für Kunstegeschichte, the Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Burlington Magazine. David G. Wilkins is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento; Paintings and Sculpture of the Duquesne Club; and many articles. Read more
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