Title & Author:

Women and art in early modern Europe : patrons, collectors, and connoisseurs / edited by Cynthia Lawrence.

Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1997.

Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-259) and index.
Jeanne d'Evreux as a founder of chapels : patronage and public piety / Carla Lord -- Margaret of Austria's funerary complex at Brou, conjugal love, politicl ambition, or personal glory? / Alexandra Carpino -- A Ferrarese lady and Mantuan Marchesa : the art and antiquities collection of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga (1474-1539) / Clifford M. Brown -- An instance of feminine patronage in the Medici court of sixteenth century Florence : the chapel of Eleonora dda' Toledo in the Palazzo Vecchio / Carolyn Smyth -- The ideal queenly patron of the Renaissance : Catherine de Medici defining herself or defined by others? / Sheila ffolliott -- Wife in the English country house : gender and the meaning of style in early modern England / Alice T. Friedman -- Imagining images of powerful women : Maria de Medici's patronage of art and architecture / Géraldine A. Johnson -- Spiritual philanthropists : women as convent patrons in Seicento Rome / Marilyn R. Dunn -- An eighteenth-century English Artemisia : Sarah Churchill and the invention of the Bleinheim memorials / Kathleen Szpila -- Jeanne-Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, Comtesse de Verrue (1670-1736) : an art collector in eighteenth-century Paris / Cynthia Lawrence and Magdalena Kasman -- The extinction and survival of the Medici : Anna Maria Luisa de Medici and the family pact of 1737 / Elena Ciletti -- An un-married woman : Mary Edwards, William Hogarth, and a case of eighteenth-century British patronage / Nadia Tscherny.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This anthology reflects a larger impulse to recover women's involvement in the creation of an aesthetic culture from the late medieval through the early modern periods. By asking how the perspectives and experiences of female patrons contributed to the invention of particular styles or iconographies, or how they shaped taste, or how they influenced demand, these twelve original essays introduce significant new information about specific women patrons while raising theoretical issues for patronage studies more generally.
While most of the projects discussed are consistent with the period's male-sanctioned concept of female patronage as an expression of conjugal devotion or dynastic promotion, at the same time the women involved devised strategies that circumvented these rules, allowing them to explore the potential or art as a means of proclaiming their own identity and taste.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0271015683 (acid-free paper)
9780271015682 (acid-free paper)
0271019697 (pbk.)
9780271019697 (pbk.)

Subject:

Women art patrons Europe Biography.
Women art collectors Europe Biography.
Women art collectors Europe Biography History and criticism.
Femmes mécènes Europe Biographies Histoire et critique.
Collectionneuses d'art Europe Biographies Histoire et critique.
Femmes mécènes Europe Biographies.
Collectionneuses d'art Europe Biographies.
Women art collectors.
Women art patrons.
Kunstbevordering.
Vrouwen.
Women art patrons Europe Biography History and criticism.
Europe.
Geschichte 1350-1750

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Added entries:

Lawrence, Cynthia Miller.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 135168
Call No.: ID N5240.P38; ID:97-B662
Status: Available