Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy / Edition 1

by Sheryl E. Reiss

Overview

Beyond Isabella d'Este, who were the secular female patrons of art and architecture in Renaissance Italy? This volume brings together fourteen essays that examine the important and often unrecognized roles secular women‹both aristocratic and bourgeois‹played in the patronage of visual culture during the Italian Renaissance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780943549880
Publisher:	Truman State University Press
Publication date:	01/28/2001
Series:	Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Editorial Reviews

To demonstrate that Isabella d'Este, marchioness of Mantua (1474-1539) was not the only woman patron of art during the period, and to balance the recent focus on religious women's patronage, US art historians and medievalists consider women patron's relationships with other women and men, including kinsmen and the artists and architects whose work they commissioned; what social classes they belong to; how they were able to finance the undertakings they sponsored; and other matters. The many photographs and reproductions are in black and white. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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