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Part I The material world of women
1. Buildings and interiors
2. Beauty, quality and elegance: objects in the house
3. Clothes: legislation, description and uses
4. Ceremony and travel: women participants and observers
Part II Women, secular art and artists: commissioning, buying, preserving
5. The building and embellishment of palaces, villas and gardens
6. Women and their use and commissioning of portraits
7. Relationships with artists
Part III Women, devotion and art
8. Private devotion
9. Communal devotion: spectacles, rituals, miraculous images and pilgrimage
10. Public devotional patronage: personal and collective
Part IV Female artists, craftswomen and writers
11. Female artists and craftswomen
12. Women writing on art and artefacts
Index

Women and the Visual Arts in Italy c 14001650

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/30/2012 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719080999, 978-0719080999
      ISBN10: 0719080991

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Part I The material world of women
      1. Buildings and interiors
      2. Beauty, quality and elegance: objects in the house
      3. Clothes: legislation, description and uses
      4. Ceremony and travel: women participants and observers
      Part II Women, secular art and artists: commissioning, buying, preserving
      5. The building and embellishment of palaces, villas and gardens
      6. Women and their use and commissioning of portraits
      7. Relationships with artists
      Part III Women, devotion and art
      8. Private devotion
      9. Communal devotion: spectacles, rituals, miraculous images and pilgrimage
      10. Public devotional patronage: personal and collective
      Part IV Female artists, craftswomen and writers
      11. Female artists and craftswomen
      12. Women writing on art and artefacts
      Index

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