Renaissance women patrons : wives and widows in Italy c. 1300-c. 1550 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York, NY, USA : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, [1998] |
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| Summary: | A study of the commissioning powers of a large group of Italian laywomen. In a sequence of case studies, the text surveys the kinds of art and architecture which these laywomen could commission, and by probing how far female patrons could express any non-conformist views or play unexpected roles in their art, it builds up a picture of the legal, social, financial and spiritual factors which made it possible for women to act as patrons in this society. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 272 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0719052882 0719052890 |