TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bourne,Molly
AU  - Crum,Roger J.
AU  - Edelstein,Bruce L.
AU  - Gilday,Rosi Prieto
AU  - Jenkens,A.Lawrence
AU  - Kohl,Benjamin G.
AU  - Langdon,Gabrielle
AU  - McIver,Katherine A.
AU  - Och,Marjorie
AU  - Pilliod,Elizabeth
AU  - Reiss,Sheryl E.
AU  - Vaccaro,Mary
AU  - Valone,Carolyn
AU  - Wilkins,David G.
TI  - Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy 
T2  - Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
SN  - 9780271097626
AV  - N5273 .B47 2001
U1  - 707/.9/45 21
PY  - 2001///]
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Penn State University Press
KW  - Art patronage
KW  - Italy
KW  - History
KW  - Art, Italian
KW  - Art, Renaissance
KW  - Women art patrons
KW  - ART / History / Renaissance
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Prologue --; Acknowledgments --; Frequently Cited Sources and Abbreviations --; Introduction: Recognizing New Patrons, Posing New Questions --; Fina da Carrara, née Buzzacarini: Consort, Mother, and Patron of Art in Trecento Padua --; Controlling Women or Women Controlled? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace --; The Women Patrons of Neri di Bicci --; Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena --; Renaissance Husbands and Wives as Patrons of Art: The Camerini of Isabella d’Este and Francesco II Gonzaga --; Widow, Mother, Patron of Art: Alfonsina Orsini de’ Medici --; Two Emilian Noblewomen and Patronage Networks in the Cinquecento --; Dutiful Widows: Female Patronage and Two Marian Altarpieces by Parmigianino --; Vittoria Colonna and the Commission for a Mary Magdalen by Titian --; Bronzino in the Service of Eleonora di Toledo and Cosimo I de’ Medici: Conjugal Patronage and the Painter-Courtier --; A Medici Miniature: Juno and a Woman with “Eyes in Her Head Like Two Stars in Their Beauty” --; A Widow’s Choice: Alessandro Allori’s Christ and the Adulteress in the Church of Santo Spirito at Florence --; Matrons and Motives: Why Women Built in Early Modern Rome --; About the Contributors; restricted access
N2  - Who were the secular female patrons of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy beyond Isabella d’Este? This volume brings together fourteen essays which examine the important and often unrecognized roles aristocratic and bourgeois women played in the patronage of visual culture during the Italian Renaissance. Themes include the significance of role models for female patrons, the dynamics of conjugal patronage, and the widespread patronage activities of widows.Collectively, the essays demonstrate how resourceful women expressed themselves through patronage despite the limitations of a highly structured patriarchal society. Thus, Isabella d’Este was by no means unique as a secular female patron, and the studies offered here should encourage scholars to move further ‘beyond Isabella’ in their assessment of women’s patronage of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271097626?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271097626
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780271097626/original
ER  -