Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy

by Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson , Sara F. Matthews Grieco

• ISBN13: 9780521565806
• ISBN10: 0521565804
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume considers pictured and picturing women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy as the subjects, creators, patrons, and viewers of art. Women's experiences and needs (perceived by women themselves or defined by men on their behalf) are seen as important determinants in the production and consumption of visual culture. By using a variety of approaches the contributors demonstrate the importance of adopting an interdisciplinary approach when studying women in Italy from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
Notes on Contributors	xii
Acknowledgments	xiv
Introduction. Women and The Visual Arts: Breaking Boundaries	1	(14)
Geraldine A. Johnson
Sara F. Matthews Grieco
PART I. ENVISIONING WOMEN'S LIVES	15	(74)
Regarding Women in Sacred Space	17	(25)
Adrian Randolph
Imaginative Conceptions in Renaissance Italy	42	(19)
Jacqueline Marie Musacchio
Pedagogical Prints: Moralizing Broadsheets and Wayward Women in Counter Reformation Italy	61	(28)
Sara F. Matthews Grieco
PART II. CREATIVE CAREERS: WOMEN AS ARTISTS AND PATRONS	89	(76)
Taking Part: Benedictine Nuns as Patrons of Art and Architecture	91	(20)
Mary-Ann Winkelmes
Lavinia Fontana and Female Life Cycle Experience in Late Sixteenth-Century Bologna	111	(28)
Caroline P. Murphy
``Virgo-non sterilis...'': Nuns as Artists in Seventeenth-Century Rome	139	(26)
Franca Trinchieri Camiz
PART III. FEMALE BODIES IN THE LANGUAGE OF ART	165	(82)
Disrobing the Virgin: The Madonna Lactans in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Art	167	(29)
Megan Holmes
Donna/Dono: Chivalry and Adulterous Exchange in the Quattrocento	196	(26)
Chad Coerver
Idol or Ideal? The Power and Potency of Female Public Sculpture	222	(25)
Geraldine A. Johnson
Notes	247	(54)
Index (compiled by Heather R. Lee)	301